"French architect Marc Leschelier brings his practice of pre-architecture to Florence with the monumental installation Ancient / New Site. The project occupies the central square of the Fortezza da Basso with 18 monolithic structures that visitors are invited to enter, cross, and inhabit. Spread across 1,700 square meters, the structures are built from scaffolding frames clad in concrete canvas, a material that has become central to Leschelier's work."
"Rather than responding to zoning codes or conventional programs, he works in open landscapes, sculpture parks, and temporary settings, developing what he describes as pre-architecture: constructions that exist prior to function, regulation, and typology. Drawing from performance art, vernacular forms, and industrial abstraction, his work proposes architecture as a physical language that communicates through scale, mass, and presence rather than through use."
Marc Leschelier installed Ancient / New Site, occupying the central square of the Fortezza da Basso with 18 monolithic structures spanning 1,700 square meters. Each monolith is constructed from scaffolding frames clad in concrete canvas, a cement-impregnated textile that hardens within 24 hours to form a mineral, load-bearing surface. The material is used for walls and roof-like enclosures, extending its infrastructural origins. Leschelier's pre-architecture approach produces constructions without predefined use, emphasizing scale, mass, and presence over programmatic function and replacing fixed systems with open, ambiguous, experientially driven structures.
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