Channelbeta's video: Florent Rougemont - Park Avenue

Tomorrow, life will be organized around carapaces, within introverted spaces. It will shelter in folds of the skin. While the ongoing withdrawal of the individuals of western societies is not likely to decrease, buildings will become more and more intelligent and interactive. Park Avenue is designed as the scenery of a urban movie fiction. It is based on actual facts and connected to a fictional close future which finds its roots in our present days. This project is a extrapolation of the real which enables to test current typologies in possible environments. In other words, it is an attempt to explore the possibilities of programming disruptive buildings for man activities at the heart of the metropolis of the future that could altogether meet the demands for shelter and interactivity while opening rifts for the unfamiliar...continue on www.channelbeta.net or at http://www.b-e-t-a.net/%7Echannelb/projects/007parkavenue/index_eng.html