1024 architecture
In the beginning, Pier Schneider and François Wunschel — co-founders of the 1024 architecture label in 2007 — were two of the five architects behind the Exyzt collective (founded in 2002), best known for its light installations, or ‘augmented architecture’, created by developing the functions of Modul8 (a VJing program). Exyzt produced the Métavilla project (2006) with the architect Patrick Bouchain for the French stand at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennial, and then the MushBoom video mapping installation (2007) projected in Karosta, a former Soviet naval base in Latvia. In 2007, 1024 architecture designed Square Cube for the electronic musician Etienne de Crécy: this was a scenic structure composed of cubic scaffolding, the appearance of which could be constantly updated according to the luminous images projected onto it. For the Lyon Fêtes des Lumières [Festival of Light] in 2010, 1024 architecture presented Perspective Lyrique (with the musician Fernando Favier), an interactive video mapping installation on the façade of the Théâtre des Célestins: using the microphone provided, spectators could use their voice to alter the projected image (and therefore the appearance of the façade). In 2011, the image spatialisation program, MadMapper, the fruit of three years of collaboration between 1024 architecture and GarageCube (the company behind Modul8), was presented at the Mapping Festival of Geneva.
PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE from 1024 on Vimeo.