Clément Lesnoff-Rocard Architecte

15/03/2023

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08/12/2020

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The last one

The Island :


Cast away

This project, initiated 3 years ago, could be considered as an antagonist allegory to the famous movie Cast away, starring everyone’s beloved Tom Hanks, lost on an island : it shows one’s relationship between isolation and the concept of wholeness, or how to create your own symbolical home out in the wild, despite being separated from the rest of the world. Conversely, here the project is about finding a way for a family to have its own universal and symbolical wild landscape inside their home, surrounded by the city but deeply separated from its looming pressure. It was somehow prophetical, considering the pandemic we are living right now and our eventual never ending lockdown conditions.

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What a moment of divine beauty, when you make way for this other truth where your usual trivial facilities become natural elements. When your grey green tiled floor becomes shallow water. When your long concrete sofa becomes a sand beach where the water tickles your feet. When a massive oak tree table becomes the big tree around which you gather as a family. When a matte black kitchen becomes the charcoal you found in the burnt forest. When a towering library becomes the cliff you climb everyday, and the books in it become the stepping stones that help you get higher. When an oversized curtain becomes a waterfall, or even just the wind. When a white concrete curved bridge becomes a stratus, a low cloud, passing quietly above your head. When a gigantic bay window becomes nothing but the sky, with its sunsets and sunrises. When a wooden staircase emerging from the shallow water becomes the beginning of a path to go somewhere else, up the mountain, above the clouds. Then you see it. It is your island, it is the island of everything. You can now close your book, put it back on the shelf and go for a walk in your garden, the real one.

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02/12/2020

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30/11/2020

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« When a wooden staircase emerging from the shallow water becomes the beginning of a path to go somewhere else, up the mountain, above the clouds. Then you see it. It is your island, it is the island of everything. You can now close your book, put it back on the shelf and go for a walk in your garden, the real one. »

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27/11/2020

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Composing without designing

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25/11/2020

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Curves

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24/11/2020

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Need some air

23/11/2020

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“Then you see it”

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22/11/2020

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“When a white concrete curved bridge becomes a stratus, a low cloud, passing quietly above your head.”

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21/11/2020

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Walking on clouds

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14/11/2020

14/11/2020

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Weekend feeling. Empty world. Just northern light.

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