Wasteland
Trignac
This was the subject of my architecture diploma :
I studied a wasteland in Trignac, (close to the harbour of St Nazaire, on the Loire).
It’s what’s left of an abandonned steelmill.
If you click on the photos or links, you’ll discover an unmapped maze of photos, panoramas and writings I gathered in this place.
I focused this study on the feelings I get while walking in abandonned factories, what they mean to me, the beauty I feel coming out of gloom and decay.
Then, I imagined what could happen there, which link could be established, apart from a memory, a museum.
From the symbol of the disappearance of industry, from a place that is scary and gives you vertigo, I imagined a game site.
Game
A game that could really be played here, and a simulation game which could be accessed on the net. The “real” game was meant to be played in the factory and in a new labyrinth, the “real” players meeting the “virtual” ones through computers.
The old factory, which used to produce matter, would have been a link towards the virtual world, a place that produces nothing tangible.