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Exhibition Landskating Villa Noailles
© Maxime Delvaux Each February-March, La Villa Noailles devotes a season dedicated to architecture. This year, WBA is pleased to work on the exhibition that will focus on landskating. The opening will take place on Saturday February the 20th at 6 PM in the presence of the architects and photographers and a conference will be given by L'Escaut on Sunday February the 21st at 11 AM, followed by a guided tour with the photographers.ExhibitionThe practice of skateboarding could be defined according to a basic apparatus: a wooden plank between 30 and 60 centimeters long with a non-slip surface (the grip) fixed to a twin system of metallic supports (the trucks) which retain four wheels containing ball bearings. Following which a series of accepted figures is practised on different types of surfaces and objects.
From this practice results an infinite number of spaces, constructed and de- signed for skateboarding or re-appropriated from their initial intention. Continuous and smooth concrete becomes a potential surface for a different purpose. Ramps, handrails, benches, pipelines and stairs become promises of sporting performances where adrenalin rules technique.
By observing towns differently, and their spaces as genuine playgrounds, skaters assert a different means of using city centres. From the first embankments of Californian schools, perched amongst the Hollywood hills, or empty swimming pools, to grand-scale projects where the emancipation of a space by a community has made its mark.First generation
An initial section will offer a historical report of the forms practised and the sociologies that they propose. The appropriation of a space and the progressive definitions of a discipline have marked a series of architectures which have since become iconic.9 contemporary projects
A second section will present 9 skateparks projects:- skatepark Les Ursulines, Bruxelles 2003 - 2006 Agence l'Escaut, Belgium.
- skatepark rue Léon Cladel, Paris. 2012 Agence Constructo, France et Raphaël Zarka.
- Miyashita Park, tokyo. 2011 Agence Atelier Bow Wow, Japan.
- skatepark Mar Bella, Barcelone. 2014 Agence SCOB, Spain.
- skatepark Les Corts, Barcelone. 2014 Agence SCOB, Spain.
- skatepark La Roche-sur-Yon. 2013 Agence Studio 1984, France.
- Street Units. Agence Janne Saario Landscape Architecture, Finland.- Olari skatepark. 2013 Agence Janne Saario Landscape Architecture, Finland.
- OTRO, île de Vassivière. 2014 Koo Jeong A et agence l'Escaut.Photographic commission
The third section of the exhibition will focus on a photographic commission placed by the arts centre bearing witness to thirty or so skateparks in France. Commission undertaken by: Olivier Amsellem, Maxime Delvaux, Stéphane Ruchaud, Cyrille Weiner.A catalogue will be available at the Villa Noailles from February 20thFor more information, do not hesitate to contact la Villa Noailles.
Documents
LandSkating_villaNoailles_english.pdfPress File
landskating_villaNoailles_francais.pdfDossier de presse
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