Project Name

Tape Paris

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Project Location

Paris, France

Year of Completion

2011

Building Type

Temporary

Building Massing

Low Rise

Project Architect

Numen / For Use Design Collective

Student Author

Tian Lan

Archived Year

11-16-2018

Climate

Marine West Coast Climate

Application

Structure

Material and its Properties

The tape is a material that is ephemeral and non-architectural, but designers turn it into one that has an architectural capacity. The stretched biomorphic skin of Tape Paris is marking the entry point to the whole experience, being a literal incarnation of an inner-directed, regressive environment - the sense of descent into the primordial always lingering around its openings. It took twelve people ten days to wrap-up the concrete pillars in the great entrance hall of Palais de Tokyo into a maze of accessible translucent passageways, which coil 50 meters through the gallery space and reach the total height of 6 meters.

Architect Website

http://numen.eu/

Other Sources

https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/31/numen-for-use-sticky-tape-paris-installation-palais-de-tokyo-cling-film/

Recommended Citation

Numen / For Use Design Collective, "Tape Paris" (2011). Building Case Studies. 322.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bcs/322