Stéphane Barbier Bouvet
Maintenance at Palama
Stéphane Barbier Bouvet (1981)
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ECAL, Lausanne (2006)
Maintenance at Palama
2019–ongoing
Massif de l’Étoile, Marseille (FR)
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Zaventem Ateliers; Manifesta Biennale; Region Sud; Les Mécenes du Sud
- Palama Ramps
Stainless steel, 2021, Version 2
The primary goal of the ramps is to contribute to the balance of the cabin. Now, the kitchen can be rolled outside, wheelchairs can be pushed inside. The ramps will stay hung in the entrance.
2. Palama Ollas
Terrracotta, 2022, Version 2, 3 and 4
These containers are inspired by traditional irrigation systems and will be buried to the neck, next to the pergola climbing plants. These oversize elements are the maximum size the potter could throw on the wheel and allow up to 4 weeks of irrigation. Only 1 of these 4 versions will go to the next stage of development after tests at Palama this summer.
3. Prototype of Week End
Meranti wood, galvanized steel, 2015, Version 0
Weekend is a picnic table first shown at Galerie Salle Principale in Paris in 2015, the version here is the first prototype made. The final versions found their place outside Palama.
4. Palama Table Filter
Terracotta, 2022, filter system, Version 1
At the moment, a lot of bottled water is used at Palama. This filter represents a second filtering system in order to drink the rain water stocked in the concrete water tanks of Palama. It can be adapted to any water dispenser; an Ikea fountain here.
5. Palama Moth Trap
LepiLED (by Dr Gunnar Brehm), diverse material, 2022, Version 0
Life around Palama can be studied using this battery powered moth trap. Images on the wall were made using this tool during the spring of 2022.
6. Palama Vent
Terracotta, 2019, Version 1
The passive ventilation system at Palama uses two vents. Fresh air comes through a provençal well see (pic on wall) at the bottom of the north-west wall and exits through a Solar Chimney (pic on wall) at top of the south-east wall.
7. Palama Hoe
Galvanized Steel, 2018, Version 1
Inspired by an agricultural hoe, this tool is made to scrape the 20 cm layer of accumulated tiles and brick waste spread all around the cabin over the last century. It lives outside, available to any visitor.
8. Pegs
Shaker pegs are used all around the cabin. New pegs are produced for every exhibition and then installed at the cabin.
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Mixed
Poterie Lutton, Tristan Dassonville céramiste, Dr Gunnar Brehm (Lepiled), Nicoll SA.
Palama
A refuge on the edge of Marseille since August 2020.
Position: 43°22’47.4”N 5°26’07.6”E
Palama is situated in an isolated position overlooking the city, welcoming the public for the night by booking.
Palama uses the exhibition format as communication and to finance its maintenance and transformations.
Palama is rooted in a notion of commons extended to all living beings; an extended community integrating the whole of the biocenosis. From a design perspective, Palama proposes to no longer think of objects as autonomous productions, but as constitutive elements of their environment. The primary goal of the objects produced is to contribute to the balance of the place.
The design methodology becomes highly specific to the place and is inspired by the changing biotopes of our contemporary societies, by integrating the diversity that we discover onsite every day, associated with the study of vernacular and oft-forgotten knowledges.
The objects at Palama are always transitory, in that they will have to be transformed again in order to remain constitutive of their environment.
Design as an appropriation of resources and environment is replaced by design as an endless process of tuning to human dependency with respect to where they live.
