Atlas of Ovens: Hot Corners
Contribution to MAGASIN/MAGAZINE, a project by Sophie Dars & Carlo Menon (Accattone) within the exhibition Émulation, curated by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat at Académie des beaux-arts, Paris. ‘Magasin/Magazine’ was awarded the Prix Charles Abella in 2024‘Magasin/Magazine’ aims to transform a rural building into a ‘place to write and make things’ through a series of specific architectural interventions, based on one-off collaborations that mobilize different sensibilities, materials, knowledge and know-how, like the contents of a magazine. The project stems indeed from the challenge of developing an architectural project with the same editorial method as Accattone, where contributions are developed separately, in collaboration with guest practitioners, while resonating with one another.
Moving from the space of the page to the built environment, the project explores the figure of the architect-editor as practitioner: ‘To the concept of invention we prefer that of a conscious, creative and critical use of existing materials, where by “materials” we refer to both the ideas of our contemporaries and those that have gone before us, the manifold products of our culture as well as the anonymous artefacts that populate our territories. We are architect-editors. Our work insists on activating a network of relations among materials that end up feeding each other around a common project. It starts with the existing, selects it, arranges it, takes care of it, “curates” it, transforms it.’
The building is situated in Parfondeval, France. It is already inhabitable, but it lacks the equipment to expand its publicity and sustain a general drive to ‘make thinks’. Therefore, the seven interventions consist in an ‘Equipped Façade’ (icw Alice Paris), a ‘Useful Post’ (icw Arnaud Depeyre), an ‘Augmented Wall’ (icw Anne Grøtte Viken), a ‘Mutant Garden’ (icw Éléonore Morand), a ‘Deviated Gutter’ (icw Rosa Fens and Nomi Schrauwen), a ‘Polished Pond’ (icw Elmēs) and an ‘Oven’ as hybrid hot corner (icw Ciel Grommen, Maximiliaan Royakkers & Clémentine Vaultier).
The oven we designed for the project is a multifunctional mass stove, offering four hot corners: an oven in the kitchen, a daybed in the studio, a drying rack in the hallway and an outdoor BBQ.
We shaped a series of tiles to dress this oven with iconography on fire, heath and related domestic practices.
If interested in a similiar kind of domestic stove, we would be eager to realise it !