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Left: a picture of the
Threshold Politics project
(2017) by Marina
Andronescu, referring to a
community of young
people who have
colonised the
underground network of
ducts and tunnels that
supply the centralised
heating of Bucharest,
Romania. The aim is to
help them gradually
transfer to an
aboveground existence.
Above: Thermal
Neighbourhood Map,
North railway station,
Bucharest, thermal image.
Towards the left is Waiting
Space Elevation, North
railway station,
Bucharest, thermal image
Philippe Rahm is a Swiss
architect, the principal of Philippe
Rahm Architectes in Paris.
His work involves architecture
in its physiological
and meteorological aspects;
he has received international
attention for his work
on sustainability.
Philippe Rahm
“Fire and the
gathering of men
near it to warm up
is at the origin
of architecture”
Vitruvius, De architectura,
1 st century BC