From 3 July 2021, the Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art presents Tomorrow’s Shelter, an exhibition by Didier Fiúza Faustino.
Acknowledging the irreversibility of climate change, Didier Fiúza Faustino imagines habitable structures that will allow humanity to develop in this new environment: Tomorrow’s Shelter. Artist and architect, Didier Fiúza Faustino lives and works in Paris and Lisbon. He has been teaching architecture at the AA School in London since 2011.
Post-apocalyptic architecture
Tomorrow’s shelter envisages how people will live, inhabit and move around once the effects of climate change become tangible. The draft report of the IPCC published in June 2021, setting a deadline of 2050. Extreme temperatures, rising sea levels, species extinction: what kind of architecture should be used in response to this paradigm shift? In a break with the major architectural trends of the last few centuries, the modules of Tomorrow’s Shelter avoid light. Cut off from the outside world, these closed structures invite you to withdraw.
Like impenetrable fortresses without windows, impervious to the elements, Didier Fiúza Faustino’s devices are composed of foundations and platforms. The former house individual living cells, while the latter constitute the common living and
activity spaces for the climate refugees of tomorrow.
Out of action
« What has interested me for a long time is a kind of dichotomy between architecture and space. »
These protective architectures reflect the impossible cohabitation between man and nature. Failure results in the isolation of man. He must be removed from nature behind impenetrable walls, the environment must be protected from his destructive activities and a new bilateral relationship model must be proposed. This is the thread that guides us through the endless labyrinths of Tomorrow’s Shelter.
Although cut off from the outside world, bodies are free to move. Will man, however, be able to renounce forever his thirst for conquest, his need to control and exploit the environment?
The exhibition at the Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art, shows six of the 125 existing modules, in the form of scale models.
Curator: Christophe Le Gac.