CA[R]MERA OBSCURA
École Spéciale d'Architecture 2005
Workshop Felice Varini with Maxime Foster, Camille Lacadee, Nicolas Polaert, Antoine Sarrat & Helene Vacheyrout.
First Prize

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This workshop was proposing to invent new ways to look at Paris. Our proposition was to set a camera obscura in the rear part of a car and drive whoever wants to, in the center of the city. The principle of the camera obscura being that the image received is inverted, Paris is thus transformed into a city made of canals solidly framed by the relatively high Parisian buildings.
The beauty of the camera obscura comes from the fact that the space is perfectly dark at the exception of an extremely small hole (here on the back of the car) that provides the light/image on the screen.