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Mesarchitecture

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Mésarchitecture, is a Paris and Lisbon-based architecture firm founded by French architects Didier Faustino and Pascal Mazoyer in 2002.

Awards and Distinctions

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  • 2010 : "Prix Dejean", Académie d’Architecture, Paris, France.
  • Selected for the Mies Van der Rohe price, 2007.
  • Selected for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects, en 2010, 2008 (finaliste) et 2006.
  • 2002 : Award winner of "Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture", with "Bureau des Mésarchitectures", Paris.
  • 2001 : Award winner of the contemporary art price "Prémio da Tabaqueira", Lisbon, Portugal 2001.
  • 2000 : Award winner of "l'Envers des Villes", Paris.

Notable works

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2009, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

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Tea house, Yang Yang (South Korea) Purpose: Sky Is The Limit is a domestic space sample propulsed 20 meters above the ground, a tea room projected in a state of weightlessness over the troubled horizon. The building's body is nothing more than a fragile skeleton. Its thin arachnoid structure sets under tension a vertical void. A bicephalous head over this fleshless body is composed of two entities. Two captive voids of strictly similar dimensions provide two opposing experiences.

2007 H-Box

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Mobile home video Purpose: H-Box: Mobile home video, is a mobile space designed to display video art for Hermès International. It is composed of modules of high-resistance lightweight materials, easily assembled, disassembled and transported, to travel around the world. Videos specially made for the touring project are updated every year.

One person dwelling, Hygienapolis Purpose: By reducing living space to its smallest unit, the square meter, this dwelling for one person promotes a critical view of land speculation. Beyond this, it subverts the notions of habitability, adaptability and evolutivity. A body-trap that takes contemporary narcissism to its most absurd, One Square Meter House makes public space the only possible terrain for social interaction.

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