Seeking to conquer inaccessible territories: Exploration and representation of metropolis beyond specialties

Abstract

The Readymake collective was co-founded in 2010 by Camille Bianchi and Marie-Ange Jambu, independent architects and professors at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB). Readymake examines how urban and suburban territory is apprehended, by means of multiscale analysis methods that establish a link between metropolitan readings and labor processes at architectural scale. The collective competencies drink from the experience of planners, researchers, graphic designers, cartographers, and artists, through lasting collaborations that try to integrate research to implementation. In the territory of the great South American metropolises of Mexico City, São Paulo, and Bogotá, and now in the heart of Île de France, the collective démarche questions and explores the emergence, in the metropolitan imaginary, of new territories stemming from the need to make the inframince and site comprehensible, at the scale of a global metropolitan system.