Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47.
28/11/2013.
[Marseille] France.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
Stéphane Malka surprise us with a quite original work, it is a camping in height generated by individual shelters with minimum dimensions apt for humans and them rest, although it seems impossible. The purpose of this project is to give shelter to many homeless people, those who are located anywhere in the city trying to keep out the cold, rain...
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture.
Interior view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture.
Interior view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
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Modulor, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Night view, Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Stealth Shelters by A-Kamp47. Photography © Laurent Garbit. Courtesy of Malka Architecture.
Memory of project.
The rapid shelter opens like an umbrella for urban campers, together in warmth. Illegitimate son of the minimal “unité d’habitation” of Le Corbusier and Claude Parent’s “oblique housing environment”, A-Kamp47 vertical camp in taken a stand at La Friche de La Belle de Mai in Marseille, on a wall between a cultural center and a railroad network.
These spaces, however, are actually in legal ambiguity, cantilevered on the law between private and public property. By appropriating blind walls, we are in reality neither inside nor outside. It’s this interstitial space that has been taken and thickened in its verticality, like a corridor carved in between.
According to the Quiliot law of June 22, 1982, "To Guarantee the right to housing constitutes a duty of solidarity for the entire nation." However, no lawprovides a national obligation for housing. Despite political promises, card board shelters and camp sites under bridges are multiplying. In the nicer neighborhoods of Marseille, the homeless are installing themselves more visibly from front lawns to the entries of buildings.
In the winter of 2006, the Children of Don Quichotte (a French association) set up more than a hundred tents along the banks of the canal St-Martin. A social revolution, outcasts and the rank-less squat Paris and many other cities in France. A logical evolution of light-weight shelters, the tent has the ability to be very mobile. But the problem is that isolated tents are more exposed; exposed to the cold, and also to theft and police raids.
In this project, Stealth Shelters respond to the immediate constraints of precarious social and intellectual systems. The proximity of the situation allows for a collective response that can be heard. The marginalized, the clandestine, squatters, and the homeless are sheltered. The blind wall snow have eyes, and they are watching us.
Text.- Stéphane Malka.
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STÉPHANE MALKA
Stéphane Malka born in Marseille, he was inspired by urban spaces from a young age. It was first through graffiti, a technique he adopted for over 10 years, that he discovered the city and its untapped potential.
In the late 80’s, his playgrounds were vacant lots. He painted large-scale frescos in the contemporary ruins of Belleville and in the infamous artist squats of the "Ateliers Frigorifiques," using various street skills and procesess including graffiti, accumulation, collage, and stencils on the "the skin of walls."
Returning to his hometown, he continued to invade the city with his art in numerous places, including art galleries. This period left him with a spirit of civil insurrection, an interest in neglected spaces, and a sense of urgency.
Stéphane received his degree as an Architect in 2003, and founded his firm on the spot. He completed Top-Nest, a panoramic rooftop bar on the Galerie Lafayette installed and built on-site in only three days. This set the cornerstone of “Le Petit Pari(s)” experimental project, where he has developed theories of urban renewal based on architectural interventions within the city’s porosities, such as urban voids, blind walls, under bridges, or on rooftops. The same year, he recycled a gas station into the art shop Black Block at the Palais de Tokyo Museum.
Multi-awarded by the French Ministry of Culture and the City Hall of Paris, his works are exhibited around the world in Galeries, National Museums such as La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), Smolny Sobor (St-Petersburg), Museum Victoria (Melbourne) or MUBE and MIS (Sao Paulo).
Located at the crossroads of critical architecture and contemporary art, Stephane Malka’s critical anlysis ans productions are focused on architectural productions, art installations, stage-design and lecture cycles.
In January 2014, he will release his first book, Le Petit Pari(s), an Architectural Kamasutra, about parasite architecture.
