@rchimedia

frédéric nantois + fiona meadows

Our work consists of three activities that are three ways of expressing the same thoughts about links and interactions within architecture, and more generally on the conception of space, communication, and the technologies associated with these. The challenge of new technologies of communications for architecture is not limited to mastering their practical uses.Architecture is now affected by the appearance of new ideas that bring into question the "communicational value" of space.

- Researches enable us to tackle particular problems, and to develop new hypotheses on a theoretical level, upstream from all architectural production – in other words, without conceiving a specific spatial answer, without any planning, unconstrained except by the originality of the theories, the value of the arguments, and the research method's interesting nature.

- "Media applications" are experimental expressions of the research. In them communication is simultaneously the challenge of the relationship that is set up between the creator and the spectator/actor, and the process that is started within the project itself, particularly in the case of interactive installations. In these, spaces provide perceptions, physical sensations, and its corresponding informational analogue.

- Architectural projects provide the opportunity to test in practice the ideas developed in the research and/or the artistic applications. It is essential because it is concrete. In other words, the experimental ideas are put into practice, and one can return to thinking about new investigations that should be undertaken.

Communication gives, through the ideas that now redefine it and with ist various techniques, new basis for the architectural investigation, the conception and perception of space. The three directions of our practice within the discipline of architecture are tools for researching and testing these hypothesis.


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