Theory & Research

Research by Eric Cassar about architecture, design and city planning

Stillness movement : __________________________________________________ 3 – A formula for every space

This text is the 3rd part of a triptych « Stillness movement ». It has been published through 4 articles in « Chroniques d’architecture » during spring 2021. I will always remember the emotion felt in Olympia facing the track of the first Olympic Games. There was almost nothing left, just a line and yet the emotion [...]

Stillness movement : __________________________________________________ 2 – Architecture is an environmental instrument

This text is the 2nd part of a triptych « Stillness movement ». It has been published through 3 articles in « Chroniques d’architecture » during winter 2020-2021. Being bored somewhere invites you to get to know the place better, to set out to rediscover it, to sharpen your gaze, to read and track the unknown. If [...]

Stillness movement : __________________________________________________ 1- From traces field to traces song

This text is the 1st part of a triptych « Movement in stillness ». It was published in Chroniques d’architecture in novembre 2020. To close the writings on the trace (1) and because our confined lives reduce our mobility, here is the first of a series of three texts on architecture – From traces field [...]

Relief (& habitable) furniture

Dwelling bigger and better (in happiness) -from living-room to living-landscape – – Upsize your apartment – Diversify your working space – Transform office into dwelling – Add a workstation at home – Increase perspectives and uses How ? In extending living space through the 3rd dimension with The relief furniture, approved during lockdown: [...]

Working with h(e)ar(t)mony

New uses, new work environment in the digital age French video with english subtitle Download the book [Fr] Facing the standardisation of working spaces, the cluttered cities, the carbon footprint expansion, the time acceleration, the new ways of life, and while the new technologies (smart-building) open opportunities : which organization [...]

Nspaces chroniques

Monthly columns by Eric Cassar for « Chroniques d’architecture » : Chroniques des Nspaces (Read the articles in french)

From outside infinity to inside infinity – Opportunities of an Artificial Intelligence in the building

Here is the platform in its entirety whose summary was published on October 18th, 2017 in Le Monde. (Read the article) The transition from « building » to « smart-building » could have a greater effect than the « phone » to « smart-phone ». It is an opportunity that requires attention and means, so let’s be ready! Towards a local internet [...]

White sheet of paper / White beach : coloring city / coloring life

White sheet of paper / White beach : coloring city / coloring life Exhibition on the sensitive city and urban landscape by Eric Cassar at the Première Ligne Gallery during the Architecture Agora Biennial – Bordeaux 2017 with the support of Arkhenspaces Video of the exhibition’s presentation (audiovisual realization by Julien Darblade – [...]

Data : towards a new resource to look after our buildings and cities

Here is the platform in its entirety whose summary was published on May 11th, 2017 in Le Monde. (more information) Data with increasing value If services from giants of the Internet (Google, Facebook …) are free, it is because we are not a customer but a product. The data we produce through our researches, [...]

Infinity Home

New housing in the digital era This project won the Great European Prize of Innovation Le Monde-Smart Cities. (Read the article from Le Monde) This work is about a co-living model which is neither a participatory housing nor a community housing but a housing where the surface of the private sphere is reduced to [...]

The Subtle city – serendipity in a sustainable ecocity

This work continues our previous researchs about architecture – interactive architecture, movement architecture, chaos architecture and subtle architecture -, housing and city – Nd city -. The subtle city is a sustainable city, building itself over time. It mainly consists in additions or alterations made on territories which are included in existing cities. It [...]

Towards a new living

Because the life accelerates and because its cost increases. Because the settled way of life leaves gradually its place with a partial nomadism. Because the digital technologies allow to improve and to simplify the management of spaces. Because the family models multiply and complicate. Because the family unit modifies simultaneously in the long time [...]