Haut
du Lièvre is a model of one of the biggest constructions in Europe.
Built by Bernard Zherfuss ,in 1959, the «Cedre Bleu» is a housing
block built for the site called «le Haut du Lièvre» in the suburbs of
Nancy in France.The block was nearly four hundred meters long, and
included nearly one thousand flats. In 2010, two hundred and fifty
meters of the blocks were cut out in the frame in of an architectural
rehabilitation.
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Between a wreck and a utopian enclave, the model floats like an anachronistic object, evoking Robert Silverberg’s book entitled the World inside and Shivers by David Cronenberg.
The
model was built in his original format (including common tumble dryers
at his roof) using the H.O scale (1/87) traditionally used for
miniature trains. The model is animated by LED lights on its façades
that reproducing the animation of a living building. Suspended with
cables, the model seems torn from the ground to become an iconic of
an architectural gesture referring to Post-World War II aesthetics and
to socialism.
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2012 - LE HAUT DU LIEVRE
