Maison Cabriolet

Claude Parent, 2013
Wood, plexiglass and cardboard
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This model is a work by Claude Parent, known for his pioneer role in the usage of obliques in architecture with Paul Virilio. This unique cabane made of glass and transparent materials providing great importance to light is composed of two elements : a hexagon interlocked in a cube with a slanted side. The use of the oblique and geometric patterns provides us with a fresh vision while the lines of the structure give it a dynamic element.

Claude Parent is an architect and theoretician known for his rupture with modernism in the 1950s and his renewed perception of space. He participated in numerous large projects such as the Aéronef de Roissy in 1995 or the Pavillon français of the Venice Biennale in 1996.