in irregular shapes stacked Dull gray concrete volume extending across the landscape just behind Paris as a set of a dystopian film, dwarfing the mostly elderly residents who their halls to hike. The 'Babel-like settlement known in Noisy-le-Grand started, in truth, as a utopia: a postmodern wonderland amongst the 50s and 80s constructed to a migrant population of refugees from rural areas of France and other welcome Nations.
Standing in stark visual opposition to the shiny glass and steel of more modern day architecture of Paris and all its centuries-old Gothic splendor, Noisy-le-Grand was drawn as a counterpoint into consideration the boxy white creations of Le Corbusier, the architect as the unimaginative. Ricardo Bofill and Manuel Nunez Yanowsky created the Espaces Abraxas and Arenes de Picasso with a postmodern sensibility.
But even though the structures are undoubtedly not lacking in imagination, ambition or scale, they are usually - not without reason - as compared to fortresses, prisons and industrial architecture. Not surprisingly, has the house to a sentence for every thing from Terry Gilliam's classic 1984 film "Brazil" to have employed "The Hunger Games Mockingjay :."
The fact that the inhabitants of this strange suburbs are practically all elderly enhances the slightly dystopian feeling, specially If you photographed under large concrete arches in this compelling photographic series of Laurent Kronental. Your humanity and the warmth and character of their interiors contrast against the cold of the architecture.
Under the title" Souvenir d 'un Futur ", the series is the result of 4 years of visits. According to his artist statement, Kronental "felt the want to examine their living situations and shed light more than a sometimes neglected generation. Exposing these unsung and underestimated suburban places is a indicates to reveal gradually disappear the poetry of the aging environments, and with them memory of modernist utopia. "
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