
EpisĂłdio
This week, we travel to Neuchâtel, Zurich and Lausanne to meet Anna MacIver-ek and Axel Chevroulet, the duo behind MacIver-ek Chevroulet. Their practice seeks âprecision as a tool to achieve an architecture sensitive to its context and generous to its usersâ - yet for them, precision is inseparable from freedom. Where lies the balance between control and release? âSometimes you go to the toilet and when you come back, things have been decided.â Architecture, after all, is a shared process - unpredictable, collective, and alive. âWe started to learn to love this idea of constraints.â Limits, they say, are fertile ground - shaping creativity rather than restricting it. That is how breaking down, reassembling, and connecting become part of their design language, almost âlike a motor, you can tear the buildings apart and reuse certain elements.â They are fascinated by connections, both literal and conceptual. âThe connections used to be in the center of architecture but disappeared with the use of concrete that is able to hide all the connections.â What was once visible became hidden, and they seek to bring that clarity back: âScrewing, nailing, or simply placing one thing on top of another. (âŚ) Making knots is insanely efficient. (âŚ) Weâre hoping to use magnets soon.â âYou need to have freedom in every scale of representation⌠everything works in a sketch and nothing works in a sketch.â Between drawings, models, and images, they navigate multiple kinds of precision. âNo medium is less precise than another; it is just another type of precision.â âItâs part of the job to be lost,â they say. But fear not, âif you have the right process, somehow, you will find a way through.â Guests: Anna MacIver-ek + Axel Chevroulet (Neuchâtel + Zurich + Lausanne, Switzerland) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)