Pratiques
The Eye, the hand and professional techniques
Reading a place requires tools. From drawing to the point cloud, each practice is a way of perceiving — none suffices on its own.
Drawing
Self-taught airbrush from adolescence, then analytical drawing, life sketches, and observational drawing at Penninghen. Drawing is not an illustration: it is a tool of perception, judgement, composition and the rapid structuring of thought.
The model
Thinking with the hand. Cardboard study models, plywood presentation models, 3D-printed parts…
The survey
Before transforming, measure what is there. Hand survey, survey field notes, Leica BLK 360 laser scanner, drone: from the dimensioned sketch to the point cloud, the survey is the unavoidable act of the existing building.
The digital world
Monitor of the La Villette computer self-service from 1999 — the digital tool entered the practice early. AutoCAD, SketchUp, 3D modelling, virtual worlds: testing spaces where the project can be walked through before it exists.
Photography
A black & white darkroom set up in the bathroom of the Paris flat in 1995, a photo subject in Venice, years in the field — and today fine-art prints in limited, numbered and signed editions.
Writing
Writing to understand. From the diploma thesis devoted to Ruffec to today's books, writing extends the reading of places.
Yann Bacquet Author
Yann Bacquet Author — ED association
