Yara Falakha, John-Bingham Hall, and Alexandra Lacroix

https://www.larchitect.org/


Today’s conversation is centered around a post-industrial site on
the north-eastern edge of Paris, known as Chapelle Charbon, that
is soon to become a new public park for the city of Paris. As a
former rail depot, the 6.5 hectare (or 16 acre) site will be
developed in several phases over the next decade. As part of this
process, the design firm Taktyk was commissioned to design a
temporary park called La Parc de 12 Saisons or The 12 Seasons
Park, that evolved over a three-year period between 2017 and
2020. Around the same time that Taktyk began their work, two
other curious site explorers stepped into the scene, driven by an
artistic interest in the sonic qualities of the terrain, giving
voice to a historic space that had been essentially forgotten
about for decades. The story begins with a serendipitous
encounter between three people: Sébastien Perfornis of the
landscape design firm Taktyk, John Bingham-Hall from the artistic
organization Theatrum Mundi and Alexandra LaCroix, director of
the opera company MPDA. We met in person in the office of
Theatrum Mundi in the 8th arrondissment of Paris at the beginning
of March 2020. Taktyk was represented by landscape architect Yara
Falaka.


Voi[e,x,s] Chapelle Charbon #1 (performance 22 and 23 June 2018)


https://vimeo.com/292686286


Voi[e,x,s] Chapelle Charbon #2 (performance 5 October 2019)


https://vimeo.com/384798801Theatrum-Mundi 


https://theatrum-mundi.org/project/voiexs/


https://theatrum-mundi.org/library/voiexs_interview/Taktyk


https://taktyk.cargo.site/12-Seasons-ParkCie MPDA


https://www.ciempda.com/voiexschapellecharbonLe Parc des 12
saisons


https://www.facebook.com/CollectifChapelleCharbon.Parcdes12saisons/