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El Nomadic Museum, Mexico-City, 2008. Montage. Au Sol, Les Tubes D'acier Utilisés Pour Les Forages Pétrolier 78 El nomadic museum, Mexico-city, 2008. Montage. Au sol, les tubes d'acier utilisés pour les forages pétrolier. Ils sont ici cintrés et forment le socle sur lequel s'appuient les surfaces réglées des parois latérales. Construction. On the floor, the steel tubes ordinarily used for oil drilling. Here, they are arched and form the base on which the ruled surfaces of the lateral walls rest. 79 Construire en bambou Simon Vélez Avec pour seuls outils un With a spiral notebook and cahier Clairefontaine et des crayons coloured pencils as his only tools, de couleur, l'architecte colombien the Colombian architect Simon Simon Vélez décline des structures Vélez designs his complex guadua complexes en bambou guadua. bamboo structures. A review Retour sur trois réalisations of three creations that are exemplaires dans leurs empreintes exemplary in their social sociales et environnementales. and environmental impact. 80 exceptionnelle et lui vaut une audience des vallées colombienne : la guadua respectée, jusqu’au sommet de l’État. angustifolia2. En collaboration étroite avec En Colombie, comme dans de nombreux l’ingénieur-constructeur Marcello Villegas pays ayant subi le joug colonial, (www.marcelovillegas.com), il a imaginé une la commande d’architecture est l’affaire série d’assemblages de tiges de bambou presque exclusive des milieux fortunés et développé un savoir-faire très spécifique, et c’est à la satisfaction de cette demande d’une grande précision. Sa mise en œuvre que Simon Vélez consacre le plus clair est exigeante, mais d’un niveau technique de son art. Or l’on sait, depuis Thorstein suffisamment simple pour être appliquée Veblen1, que les classes possédantes se dans des conditions de chantiers forains livrent le plus souvent à la consommation très dispersés et ne disposant que d’un ostentatoire la plus effrénée, et ce faisant outillage assez simple. L’optimisation de cette prescrivent aux autres couches de la société technologie est à la base de l’organisation de les modes du paraître. C’est suivant ses chantiers, où il opère à l’aide ce mécanisme que l’architecture privée d’une importante main-d’œuvre qualifiée. est généralement désastreuse au niveau Ils se structurent autour de chefs d’équipe, formel et extrêmement dévoreuse d’énergie qui maîtrisent parfaitement les techniques à force de recourir aux matériaux en d’assemblage, sur un code de représentations vogue dans les pays riches. Par ce biais, nécessaire et suffisant fait de dessins en Simon Vélez (à g.) et deux de ses chefs d'équipe. elle s’impose aussi comme modèle, à la couleur, à main levée, tracés sur un papier Simon Vélez (left) and two of his team leaders. manière des trophy houses nord-américaines, quadrillé, ainsi que sur les voyages incessants devenues décors favoris des feuilletons de l’architecte et un contact téléphonique télévisés et qui suscitent les déclinaisons permanent. Simon Vélez ne recourt aux n Europe, Simon Vélez s’est fait sans fin de ses avatars. Jusqu’aux plus représentations « modernes », montages 3D, un nom dans le champ de pathétiques. rendus ou modelés informatiques, que pour l’architecture par l’entremise complaire aux exigences d’agences publiques d’Alexander von Vegesack et L’existence de Simon Vélez, architecte, chargées de faire respecter les « bonnes Jean Dethier, qui l’ont « découvert » fils d’architecte et petit-fils de fermier pratiques » contemporaines. Een Colombie dans les années 1980. En passionné par la construction de ses Charente, sur le domaine de Boisbuchet infrastructures, est largement déterminée Le pragmatisme développé par Simon (www.boisbuchet.org, lire AA 386), par les conditions du climat tropical, Vélez pour ses constructions en bambou où il a animé plusieurs stages, il a laissé caractérisé par une équivalence immuable guadua est typique de toute sa démarche. des témoignages construits de son art. du jour et de la nuit, l’absence de saisons, Il agit de manière analogue, qu’il travaille On se souvient aussi de son colossal pavillon la luxuriance et la diversité phénoménales le béton, d’autres espèces de bois ou l’acier. de bambou installé en 2000 à l’Exposition de la végétation, y compris dans les altitudes Il se défend d’ailleurs avec énergie d’être universelle de Hanovre pour le compte d’une élevées au climat frais. La côte colombienne un bambouseros et s’entend à merveille à fondation de sauvegarde de l’environnement. fut explorée en son temps aussi bien distinguer les matériaux en leur assignant En 2009 enfin, la reconnaissance par Élisée Reclus que par Alexander les fonctions les plus spécifiquement internationale de Simon Vélez est confirmée von Humboldt – ce dernier en ramena conformes à leurs performances. Sa stratégie par le Grand prix de la Fondation Prince un nombre considérable d’espèces végétales est celle du judoka : il considère les forces Claus, aux Pays-Bas. Chez lui, l’architecte jusqu’alors inconnues des scientifiques. en présence et leur applique une démarche est une institution. Esprit libre, il n’est guère Pour les Colombiens, la botanique est une d’une simplicité désarmante. C’est ainsi qu’il visible dans les milieux de l’académie, sorte de seconde nature, que Simon Vélez a su convaincre ses influents clients de se aux mains des épigones néomodernes, revendique. Ses origines rurales en font faire bâtir des résidences luxueuses, édifiées dans l’ombre tutélaire de Rogelio Salmona. un fin connaisseur du patrimoine naturel dans le matériau utilisé par les paysans Il peut déranger en bataillant contre la et l’ont conduit très tôt à s’intéresser à une les plus pauvres ! Déjouant ainsi le cercle destruction du patrimoine des vieux quartiers variété de bambou, espèce endémique vicieux tracé par Thorstein Veblen, il a réussi, espagnols de Bogota et contre la corruption 1 Thorstein Veblen, Théorie de la classe de loisirs. Gallimard, 2 On se rapportera à ce propos à l’ouvrage-catalogue Grow your own endémique, mais n’en jouit pas moins d’une 1970. Cette édition est précédée d’une introduction visionnaire house, Simon Vélez and Bamboo architecture, par Mateo Kries, Jean renommée qui lui permet une productivité de Raymond Aaron. Dethier, Klaus Steffens e.a, publié par le Vitra Design Museum (2006). El nomadic museum, Mexico City, place de la constitution, en 2008, El nomadic museum, intérieur / interior. en cours de montage. / Constitution Square, in 2008. During construction. 81 Colombie, essais de charge d'une charpente appuyée sur des surfaces réglées. / Colombia, load tests for a frame resting on the ruled surfaces. Projet pour El nomadic museum. Sous chaque demi-ferme, le bouquet de tiges de bambou guadua, dont les rhizomes forment les chapiteaux. / Project for the El Nomadic Museum. Under each half-truss, the cluster of stems of guadua bamboo whose rhizomes form the canopy. 82 Manizales, Colombie, pavillon de l'association des coopératives de planteurs de café. Prototype du pavillon édifié par Simon Vélez pour l'Exposition universelle de Hanovre en 2000. La construction de ce prototype a permis aux instances de certification allemandes de procéder aux essais en charge du pavillon. Il abrite aujourd'hui des événements ponctuels. Manizales, Colombia, pavilion of the association of the coffee planters’ cooperatives. Prototype of the pavilion built by Simon Vélez for the 2000 Universal Exposition in Hanover. This prototype had to be built to permit the German certification authorities to conduct load tests on it. It is used today to house events. grâce à ces prescripteurs d’opinion, d’exposition éphémère d’environ 5.000 m2 dont une est visible en France : le pavillon à convaincre maintes grandes administrations et abriter les infrastructures lourdes dans de bain, au bord de l’étang du domaine publiques, des entreprises soucieuses une série de containers de 40 pieds ? Là où de Boisbuchet, permet de saisir l’essence du de leur empreinte environnementale ou des Shigeru Ban a mis en œuvre d’énormes piles système constructif et des caractéristiques municipalités, à adopter le bambou guadua en carton, Simon Vélez fait porter ses paires structurelles dont l’architecte décline et à assumer l’image qui lui est liée. de demi-fermes classiques sur deux surfaces à l’infini des variantes (à voir également réglées faites de tiges de bambou guadua, sur le site, une salle de conférence et une À l’étranger, le pavillon de Hanovre, dont disposées entre deux tubes d’acier cintrés, petite maison). La maison de ville du peintre il existe à Manizales un prototype ayant de part et d’autre d’une membrane de tôle. Carlos Jacanamijoy, à Bogota, donne à servi aux tests de charge, est l’œuvre L’espace couvert est libre d’appuis. Comme mesurer à la fois la diversité des matériaux la plus connue de l’architecte. Mais la plus par ironie, Simon Vélez suspend à ses fermes sur lesquels s’exerce l’imagination créative spectaculaire et la plus astucieuse est sans des faisceaux de tiges de bambou auxquelles de l’architecte et sa maîtrise délicate doute la structure éphémère El nomadic restent attachées les rhizomes ; il figure de la mise en espace, de la lumière et des museum, édifiée en 2008 sur la place ainsi des colonnes et leur chapiteau. Le motif fonctions. La structure éphémère de Mexico de la Constitution, à Mexico, pour le compte avoué est d’accroître la stabilité de l’ouvrage nous permet d’évoquer la place ironique et du Rolex Institute et de l’artiste canadien en chargeant la toiture, mais l’effet obtenu est furtive qu’a prise l’architecte. Mais une place Gregory Colbert. L’exposition Ashes and d’interroger avec malice le dispositif primitif, méritée autant que légitime dans un champ Snow avait trouvé, en 2005, un premier la colonnade restant suspendue à un mètre essentiel du débat architectural international, abri à Manhattan sur le Pier 54, à la hauteur au-dessus du sol ! celui de l’architecture éphémère, légère de la 13e Rue, puis à Tokyo sous une dans son empreinte environnementale, structure provisoire gigantesque imaginée La brièveté de cette présentation ne et pourtant colossale dans l’usage social par l’architecte japonais Shigeru Ban.
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