Galerie Le Château d'Eau

Les Carrelets are small structures near rivers, several examples of which are still to be found in the Garonne estuary. Mounted on a platform raised from the ground, a carrelet is a fishing net stretched across a rectangular frame. These constructions, which proliferated in the years after paid vacation became law in 1936, provided people with an extra source of food. 

Produced with the participation of students of the Industrial Metalworking Technician vocational program – UIMM Occitanie Beauzelle, of the Woodworking program at the Arts and Crafts of Wood high school in Revel, and of the industrial design company Metamo.
Materials are partly sourced from re-usage as part of the LifeWaste2Build European program at Toulouse Métropole. 

(What inhabit means)

"During lockdown, I sketched ideas for housing. I focused on the house as matrix of a life project. A house that attempts an environmental approach: it comes into interaction, stands out from its immediate surroundings, seeking reciprocal evolution. And might therefore constitute a solid basis for projection into the future." matali crasset 

Each of these seven houses was inspired by readings of ecologist and anthropologist philosophers. These domestic utopias are polar opposites of the cocoon house, which insulates and protects. Two houses will be particularly elucidated: «Under the house, the earth breathes,» inspired by an Augustin Berque quote, and «the time of restitution,» based on a reworking of the pit house, a neolithic house that offers a lifestyle with a different relationship to waste, as a resource. 

The exhibit design itself constitutes a cabin, since it comprises a «wood circle,» a traditional method of stocking firewood, which will revert to its primary usage when the exhibition is over. 

The exhibition in the Château d’Eau gallery will feature seven models and two descriptions of two micro-structures that will be built in full scale and installed in the public space of the Saint- Cyprien neighborhood before finding a permanent location in the city. 

Produced with the participation of students of the Industrial Metalworking Technician vocational program – UIMM Occitanie Beauzelle, of the Woodworking program at the Arts and Crafts of Wood high school in Revel, and of the industrial design company Nogues for Le Nouveau Printemps 2023. Materials are partly sourced from re-usage as part of the LifeWaste2Build European program at Toulouse Métropole. 

The two micro-structures produced with the support of the Fondation des Artistes et des Amis du Nouveau Printemps.