Harvest, 2027 –

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RESEARCH

PRIMARY STRUCTURES

JURY

Film still from Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I (2000): a man looking at Jean-François Millet’s The Gleaners (1857).

“G as in gleaning. To glean is to gather after the harvest. A gleaner is one who gleans.” With these words Agnès Varda opens The Gleaners and I. Her film begins with the old agricultural practice of gleaning — returning to the field after the harvest to gather what has been left behind — and traces how the practice continues today.

Gleaning is still alive. It is an act of looking closely, gathering selectively, and recognising value in what is already there. Earlier investigations into garages, palazzi, gas stations, vernacular rural structures and urban building blocks have produced a vast archive of drawings: an Atlas of the Existing. This year, we will mine our own archive.

We will use the Atlas as a material quarry. Instead of beginning with a programme, a site and a blank page, we begin with what has already been found. Plans, sections, structures, fragments and spatial figures become the raw material for new architectures. After years of observing and recording the existing, it is time to return to the field. After years of urban mining, it is time to harvest. The conventional order of design is reversed: first we gather, then we select, then we decide what to do. Gleaning is an act of selection. But harvest is not merely the extraction and reuse of material. It is also a ritual act: a moment of celebration.

RESEARCH

fig 1153A, Ph. De l’ Orme, dans «Nouvelles Inventions Pour Bien Bastir Et a Petits Fraiz» (Ed.1561)

fig 1152A, Matrix of Doors from Sebastiano Serlio, Extraordinario libro di architettura.

fig 1151A, Site visit stadsatelier de ville + recypark Jette

fig 1151B, Site visit stadsatelier de ville + recypark Jette

fig 1151C, Site visit stadsatelier de ville + recypark Jette

fig 1151D, Site visit stadsatelier de ville + recypark Jette

fig 1151E, Site visit stadsatelier de ville + recypark Jette

fig 1151F, Site visit stadsatelier de ville + recypark Jette

PRIMARY STRUCTURES

fig A Collection 1_A-spant

fig A Collection 2_Vakwerk

fig A Collection 3_T verbindingen

fig A Collection 1_ trusses

fig A Elements_2 gas station Diest

fig A Collection 4_Schrijnwerk

fig A Elements 3_ Parking PAS

fig A Collection 5_Portaalconstructies

fig A Collection 4_ Sport hall roof structures

fig A Collection 5_ parking slopes

fig A Collection 6_ extensions

fig A Collection 7_ columns

fig A Collection 8_ wooden trusses

fig A Elements 9_ Roman house

fig A Collection 10_ round structures

fig A Collection 6_Kolommen

fig A Collection 7_Schrijnwerk andere

fig A Collection 8_Gasstation parts

fig A Collection 9_roofstructures kiosk

fig A Collection 10_Zuilen

fig A C1_TimberConnections

fig A C2_SolidTimberConstructions

fig A C3_SteelConnections

fig A C4_CantilleveredCanopies

fig A C5_DoubleSidedCanopies

fig A C6_ArchedTrusses

fig A C7_TimberColumnGrid

fig A C8_SteelCanopyStructures

fig A C9_ArchedTrussesII

fig A C10_TrussSupportsMasonry

fig A Collection_Steel-Connections

fig A Collection_Verbinding staal

fig A Collection_Connection Steel-To-Concrete

fig A Collection_Vakwerk 3D

fig A Collection_ConcreteFoot

fig A Collection_Brick Towers

fig A Collection_Concrete structures

fig A Collection_Wood roof construction

fig A Collection_KioskConstructions

fig A Collection_KioskConstructionsRoofFoundation

fig A Collection_ArchedHall Connection

fig A fig A Collection 1_connections

fig A fig A Collection 2_Steel_concrete base

fig A Collection 1_StructuralElements

fig A fig A Collection 3_disassembly gasstation-Fratersplein

fig A Collection 2_ConcreteFrame

fig A fig A Collection 3_disassembly gasstation-Fratersplein

fig A Collection 3_TrussHalls

fig A Collection 4_TimberFrame

fig A fig A Collection 4_arches

fig A fig A Collection 5_roof structures

fig A fig A Collection 6_cantilivers

fig A fig A Collection 7_disassembly Sint-Salvadorsstraat

fig A fig A Collection 8_doorways

fig A Collection 5_PitchedCanopy

fig A Collection 6_BeamCanopy

fig A Collection 7_TrussCanopy

fig A fig A Collection 9_windows

fig A collection_building plinths

fig A collection_buildings with identical bay spacing_A

fig A collection_buildings with identical bay spacing_B

fig A collection_corner connections

fig A collection_pinned joints

fig A collection_rigid joints

fig A collection_steel frame variations

fig A disassembly_building with identical bay spacing_shed Pittem

fig A disassembly_building with identical bay spacing_sportshall Zelzate

fig A disassembly_hybrid structure sportshall Plato