The project explores the notion of texture and material related to the architectural domain, at different scales of interpretation. Architectural identity is always linked to the notion of the materials used, forming the envelope, the skin of void and solid, the genome of the building, thus defining the visual and physical spatial environment. Nowadays, companies face the issue of waste materials, particularly with ultimate waste. This poses a challenge to effectively reconsider them and give them a second life. Therefore, in collaboration with DACRYL, specialised in acrylic resin, artist Marc Brousse will present a series of artworks, design objects, and facade prototypes that reuse/recycle certain ultimate waste materials. The goal is to bring existing materials frozen in time into dialogue with an innovative material that allows them to have a new long-term function. For instance, it will demonstrate that copper shavings, textile residues, and even architectural tracing paper can, depending on their scale, become a design object, a lamp, or a facade element like a brick. The process of embedding materials in Dacryl resin allows the creation of elements with an RRR approach (reuse, reduce, recycle), where the acrylic resin is used as a base, making it 100% infinitely recyclable. Moreover, these elements offer work that highlights the tension between light and matter, with Dacryl having a light transmission of 92%, making it as transparent as crystal.

To accompany this project, an installation and a series of works by the artist will be exhibited. Through his very distinctive drawings, Marc explores the notion of urban fabric and architectural layers. Cities weave and drape themselves with seams and architectural alterations through the addition of old or new textures. Unlike a homogeneous system, each city is a "unique species." A collection of fragments of architectures from different eras juxtaposing and clashing to form the epigenetic program of the place. Our memory associated with this art of building, our spatial experience, is defined by a montage of architectural fragments, as we define them as places of historical, scientific, or emotional interest. Thus, the artist will highlight this notion through his works.

Three Nocturnes are planned to explore the exhibition and the articulated matter.