From October 11 to 15, Paris hosted the second phase of the workshop between Art Academy of Latvia and École Boulle, dedicated to the design of the interior spaces of a mid-realistic mid-utopian hotel, imagined by 32 students in 5 days !

This project was first of all a great occasion for french and latvian students to work again together, crossing skills from Design Department of Art Academy of Latvia and DSAA Architecture intérieure from École Boulle. The work consisted in making big vertical sections in order to unify each team project to the others inside a great indoors common space.

It was not always easy, especially when students had to imagine the space in deepness and not only more in vertical section. They had to put all together their different projects in order to design one unified space. The students were very involved and never gave up in spite of many difficulties. The result is a great experience of cultural cooperation and of learning the project methodology in teams and in english.

This workshop week ended with an exhibition in École Boulle, designed by the students themselves, and with the visit of the new director of École Boulle, M. Christophe Hespel, and the new latvian ambassador in France, Mrs Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes.

Riga Paris Design, let's watch the movie !

Please visit also these links

• my personal photo report : http://gallery.me.com/s.vial#100084
• the special web page published by Art Academy of Latvia : http://lma.lv/?parent=1232 (lv)
• the presentation of the first phase in March : http://www.reduplikation.net/en/posts/paris-riga-design-2010

From the left to the right : Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes (ambassador), Christophe Hespel (director of École Boulle), Bruno Rosenzweig (profesor at école Boulle), Holgers Elers (director of Design Department at Art Academy of Latvia), Laura Bistrakova (student at Art Academy of Latvia) et Amandine Langlois (student at École Boulle).