stries de bandes pixellisées banchées en relief

Miranda Joubioux (X) (asker) Mar 13, 2007:

Hi Emma - not really. It's one of those one's that got away (or that I got away with:-)). The suggestion that I was given in private (cf. above) was what I put in the end, since it was the closest possible interpretation of the picture, but I can't say I was happy about it. I tried to send the photo to jacqueb, but my mail came back to me. When the actual magazine is sent to me I'll have a closer look at all the pictures. I might then be able to understand what they are getting at. This is one of the problem's with working on magazines without the associated pictures.

Emma Paulay Mar 13, 2007:

Did you ever get to the bottom of this one, Miranda? Do let us know - I found it quite intriguing!

Miranda Joubioux (X) (asker) Feb 21, 2007:

That's not quite the way I see it. If you'd like to see the photo, just mail me and I'll send it to you.

jacqueb Feb 21, 2007:

OK, so if I understand correctly, the blue highlight represents the original perimeter wall, and the white stripes (pixelles) represent what remains of it. Maybe?

Miranda Joubioux (X) (asker) Feb 21, 2007:

Ok - I've managed to get my hands on a picture. It is a view from above the building which is graphically represented in a blue colour and is covered in diagonal stripes in white (this is where the pixels enter in). A suggestion I have been given in private is "walls with a relief feature of stepped diagonal bands in cast concrete". What I am still unsure about is how this can be called a remaining feature (it looks pretty new to me, when you see what the old building was like (in the link in the answer below).

Emma Paulay Feb 21, 2007:

or maybe just kind of embossed dots or points...and as they're all over, there are thousands of them so they've used the term "pixellisé".

Bourth (X) Feb 20, 2007:

Might it be meant to be "(pixellisées)", in brackets, indicating that the area in question has been marked up on the photo?

jacqueb Feb 20, 2007:

I don't know where the 'pixelllisées" comes from either, but I believe they're talking about the type of embossed vertical serrations that appeared on the shuttered concrete walls of many French 'government' facilities during the '70s.

Miranda Joubioux (X) (asker) Feb 20, 2007:

Part of the main article refers to:
Un soin particulier a été porté à l’acoustique, contrôlée par de justes dispositions de cassettes de Fibrastyrène, en chevrons, faisant écho aux stries extérieures.
It's the "pixellisées" that really throws me.

Miranda Joubioux (X) (asker) Feb 20, 2007:

Yes I do mean Brewery (sorry - fingers are tiring). The Brewery building was almost completely demolished to house this new gymnasium, hence I suppose the business about deformation. To me "programme" is used to refer to the architectural development (there are houses as well as a gymnasium).

Alain Pommet Feb 20, 2007:

Can you give any more infor? Do you mean brewery? Any idea of what 'le programme' is?