TATLIN NEWS #43

план 1-го этажа | plan of the 1st floor

генплан | general layout

that the sense of the term functionality has slightly changed; it no longer has a meaning of philanthropy of life-creating pompousness, where everything was based on proportions adequate to man and his needs. Functional- ity today is about how the building matches the function of the institution it hosts – eve- rything has to have a proper place and should define, whether the object should be consid- ered a museum, an office building or a thea- tre. Everything has become quite typical, and the standards applied are not the best ones. Well, the more interesting the variations are. The building of the Centre for Autonomous control of Parisian transport designed by Em- manuel Combarel and Dominique Marrec is one of such variations. It is not an exception – that would be a too radical thing to say, but it is a variation. The architects’ creative line is the idea that architecture should not be over-

разрез | section

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