Articles and pictures are from the Internet, without any commercial purpose, only for personal practice and exploration of English reading methods, if infringement, please contact to delete afforable houses French couple the Pritzker Prize Anne lacaton and Jean Philippe vassal have ever been olisheda building inord ertoconstructanewone.TheFrencharchitectsbelievethateverystructurecanberepurposed ,reinvented, reinvigorated.Now ,after34yearsofputtingthatapproachintopractice,theyhavewontheirfield’shig hesthonor:thePritzkerPrize.Vassal ,67,saidtheyevenonceconstructedabuildingaroundaforest—alwaysmakingsuretointegratethenaturallandscapeandpreservethepast.”Takecareofthememoryofthingsthatwerealreadythere,andlistentothepeoplethatarelivingthere, ” hesaid.Inupgradingthe1960shousingprojectTourBois -Le PR ê tre (no doubt, I can’t read it, so I didn’t read it) on the outskirts of Paris, the architects extended the floorplates to increase the size of rooms, adding balconies and inter gardens, addingthatthepairprefers”toworkwithverysimpleelements—air,sun—thatwedon’thavetopayfor.”Designingaffordablehousinghasalwaysbeenparamount,thearchitectssaid,becausequalityisoftensacrificedandther esultsaresubstandard.Throughtheuseofsimpledesignsandbasicmaterials , theyhavechallengedthenotionthatgenerousspaceandlimited fundsareincompatible.Thisisnotaboutvalueengineering , thearchitectssaid.Instead ,itisaboutwhatLacatondescribedas”anattitudeofcarefulobservation”:investigatingasitebeforerushingtoputyourmarkonit, exploringwhatmightbeworkingbeforefocusingonwhatshouldbefixed.”Thisideathataestheticsaretheresultoftheprocessofcreationisnotsomethingthatwehavetothinkatthebeginning,”Vassalsaid.”Wethinkthatbeautyalwayshappensattheend.”。
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