Archi-Folies 2024

20 architecture schools in France have come together to design and build 20 full-scale pavilions in the middle of Parc de la Villette before and during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

This architecture exhibition is being sponsored by Bernard Tschumi, the legendary Swiss architect who designed the park and its famous Folies.

20 projects imagined by the 20 national architecture schools in collaboration with 20 athletics federations will become 20 pavilions built on the vast park lawn known as the prairie du Triangle. Temporary structures (which will be relocated elsewhere or recycled) designed by the architecture students will be built on site and freely open to the public, in the presence of docents who will explain the pavilion, from 14 June to 7 July, before they become the pavilions for 20 athletics federations within the “Club France” site during the Olympic Games. They will once again become freely accessible during the Paralympic Games, from 28 August to 3 September.

An exception point of convergence between architecture and sports, this exhibition will be a high point of the Cultural Olympiad for enthusiasts, families, and the general public curious about Parc de la Villette.

This ambitious project is supported and financed by the French Ministry of Culture, in partnership with Parc de la Villette (EPPGHV), the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG), and it is being implemented by France’s 20 national schools of architecture and landscape architecture (ENSAP) under the coordination of the Grands Ateliers Innovation Architecture.

 

 

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