CONCRETE ISLAND, 2008

White concrete

2900 m2

The context of a floating building is not about physical and close surroundings. The river prevails over Paris and its history, transporting us in its streams to other ways, a possible somewhere. Rather than settling down one more building on the water, Concrete Island merely springs up from the river. It becomes another space, a piece of a city in the city, unique but accessible, such as heterotopias “suppose always an opening and closing system both isolating them and making them penetrable”.
Concrete Island is the exclave in a word of possibilities, the terra incognita given to extraordinary expeditions of explorers in drifting.