This video is a display of the non functionality and flexibility of the Villette’s architecture. I follow the only visually consistent element, the grid made of the Folies, and trace the vertical and horizontal axis through pictures of the view from each of the Folie’s angles. In that way I am following the park’s “base” structure, but by mimicking a “merry-go-round” effect I’m also translating the playfulness and open-ended, evolving experience it provokes.

In response to the open ended questions, I think that the negation of a composition makes this experience very subjective to circumstances, wether they are external or internal to the person subjected to this experience. The audience will base their trajectory on their mood, visual stimulation, climate, physical abilities, curiosity, anything that can attract their attention, association, the events taking place that day and their relevancy to the person, maybe even interactions with whoever they came with. The park is like a playground for the subconscious. It is also in that way that I believe that it is a field upon which “faces” can be projected: each individual will make La Villette theirs, or “interpretive infinity” as was previously suggested in the article. For me, the park is faithful to the architect’s concept. Finally, I think that the traces that it still holds from its slaughterhouse history, visually speaking, is the architecture and design of the main building. The materials used and the layout of it is not typical for cultural centers or if this time in general. When I see it, even if I didn’t know what exactly was its history, I can tell it held a different function than the one it holds today.