Collectif EXYZT is a French collective founded in 2003 that designs and builds experimental temporary architecture projects. Their goal is to create spaces that encourage community, creativity, and new social behaviors. Their projects involve the local community and provide spaces for events and cultural exchange. Some of their past projects include Metavilla in Venice in 2006, LabiChampi in Latvia in 2007, Southwark Lido in London in 2008, and UFO in Warsaw in 2011.

1. COLLECTIF
EXYZT
EXYZT
37, rue petion
75011 PARIS
contact@exyzt.org
www.exyzt.org

2. BE
UTOPIAN
We want to build new worlds where fiction is reality and games are new rules for
democracy. If space is made by dynamics of exchange, then everybody can be the
architects of our world and encourage creativity, reflexion and to renew social
behaviours.
EXPERIMENT
Architecture can expand into a multidisciplinary game where everyone brings his own
tools and knowledge to contribute to a collective piece.
We do refuse to enter the current architectural practice which serve the building
industry.
We do deal with the reality of construction.
We design, build and live our constructions and host the freedom for visitors to
appropriate our projects.
We produce an open source architecture that offer an access to basic public
amenities and a place for exchange : A physical framework for a direct and
immediate emulation between people and space.
We wish to incite anyone to re appropriate and get involved with his own social and
physical environment.
REACTANDACT

3. PALACE / BORDEAUX / 2011
UFO / WARSAW / 2011

4. EXYZT wish to express and share its strategy to spark urban renewal wider
in the world.
Based on the idea that a community of users actively creating and inhabiting
their urban environment is key to generating a vibrant city.
We wish to militate for this strong political statement by working with
existing situations to create conditions for vibrant points of community
and cultural engagement.
We propose to implement exceptional and temporary public structures to
experiment in situ new models to inhabit and enhance public spaces and
uses collectively.
The run-up to each projects see the collective forming links with the
local community and specific groups, providing them with a new place to
hold events, share their work and ideas :
Non institutional places where to imagine and test collectively new social
behaviours.

5. LABICHAMPI / KAROSTA / 2007 BURNINGHAM / BIRMINGHAM / 2011
SOUTHWARK LIDO / LONDON / 2008 LABICHAMPI / KAROSTA / 2007
FARWEST HOTEL / ROTTERDAM / 2011 DALSTON BARN / LONDON / 2010
METAVILLA / VENICE / 2006 METAVILLA / VENICE / 2006

6. Collectif
EXYZT
Collective domicilited in Paris since 2003
EXYZT’s manifesto proclaims it as a ‘platform for multidisciplinary
creation’ whose aim is to challenge the view of architecture
as an independent field of practice. Instead, they embark on
experimental living ventures built collectively.
The collective conceive and organise each project as a playground
in which cultural behaviours and shared stories relate, mix and
mingle.
Each project, always strive to involve different constituencies
of the local community in a social network that is invited to
inhabit a temporary space.
EXYZT were last seen in Warsaw with the UFO project during the
summer 2011 and in september 2010 with CITYISLAND, a temporary
rainforest and its lagoon, contribution for “ La Noche En Blanco”,
Madrid. Other projects were in London, 2009 the Dalston Mill
contribution to the Barbican’s Radical Nature exhibition which
was followed recently by the “Dalston Barn” in early 2010. Or
the Southwark Lido, the
Architecture Foundation commission for the 2008 London Festival
of Architecture. And projects include Architecture du RAB,
EXYZT’s first project of ‘architectural piracy’, as they refer to
it, occupying a 335-metre-square abandoned plot near Parc de la
Villette in Paris; LabiChampi, 2007, a micro urban farm in the
abandoned Soviet military district of Karosta, Latvia, providing
the neighborhood with an
alternative resource, both of local food production and potential
income; and the inhabitation and adaptation of the French Pavilion,
the Metavilla for the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

7. METAVILLA / VENICE / 2006

8. CITY ISLAND / MADRID / 2011
FARWEST HOTEL / ROTTERDAM / 2011

9. DALSTON MILL / LONDON / 2009 CITY ISLAND / MADRID / 2011
CITY ISLAND / MADRID / 2011 DALSTON MILL / LONDON / 2009
DALSTON BARN / LONDON / 2010 CITY ISLAND / MADRID / 2011
CITY ISLAND / MADRID / 2011 DALSTON MILL / LONDON / 2009
METAVILLA / VENICE / 2006

10. WHO IS EXYZT ?
Our team is a community of people who have chosen to act under the same
principle of sharing knowledge and abilities. We extend our network over
national borders by collaborating with people around the world.
« EXYZT » is an association under the french 1901 legislation.
ACTIVE MEMBERS
Christophe Goutes, artist aka toffee (2004)
Dagmar Dudinsky, aka vandalove, graphic designer, (2004)
Nicolas Henninger, aka nikloos, architect, (2003)
Alexander Roemer, architect & carpenter, (2006)
Gonzague Lacombe, aka mamadou, graphic designer, (2004)
Stéphanie Grimard, architect, (2006)
Brice Pelleschi, photographer, (2004)
Mattia Paco Rizzi, architect, (2010)
Raf Salis, master technician, (2004)
Manu Macaigne, carpenter, (2010)
Fred Keiff, architect & artist (2006)
Daya Bakker, architect & carpenter, (2007)
Bruno Persat, artist & cook, (2010)
Julien Beller, architect, (2005)
COLLABORATORS
Sara Muzio, Studio Public, Zoom Architecture, Ewa Rudnicka, Gabi
Farage / Bruit du Frigo, Basurama, Raumlabor Berlin, MUF
Architecture,
SPECIAL THANKS
Patrick Bouchain
Xavier Juillot
Gilles Burban ( 2003 - 2007 )
Philippe Rizzotti, architect, ( 2003 - 2010)
Pier Schneider and Franz Wunschel, architects (2003-2009)
Laurent Petit
Philippe De Angeli (2005-2008)
Hannes Schreckensberger, (2004-2010)

11. SOUTHWARK LIDO / LONDON / 2008
SOUTHWARK LIDO / LONDON / 2008

12. SOME KEY
PROJECTS
2003
LE RAB diploma project with Xavier Juillot and Patrick Bouchain at UP6 Paris
La Villette (fr)
2004
SERVICE PUBLIC With European Architecture Student Assembly at la Condition
Publique de Roubaix (fr)
2005
DER BERG with Raumlabor in the Palast der Republik in Berlin (de)
2006
METAVILLA with Patrick Bouchain for the french pavilion at the X
International Biennale of Architecture in Venice (it)
2007
SITUATION ROOM commissioned by Joseph Grima for the Gallery
Storefront For Architecture , New York (us)
LABICHAMPI with K @ 2 fondation, in Karosta in Latvia (lv)
2008
SOUTHWARK LIDO with Sara Muzio for the London Festival of
Architecture, London (uk)
CITY ECO LAB with John Thackara and Gaelle Gabillet for the international
Design Biennale in Saint Etienne (fr)
2009
DALSTON MILL with Agnes Denes commissioned by Francesco Manacorda for
the Barbican Art Gallery during the exhibition Radical Nature – Art and
Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, London (uk)
2010
CITY IS’LAND commissioned by Basurama for La Noche en Blanco, Madrid (sp)
2011
UFO commissioned by Ewa Rurnicka et Fundacja Vlepvnet for the city of
Warsaw (pl)
FARWEST HOTEL commissioned by Lukaz Feireiss for WERELD WITTE DE WITH
Festival, Rotterdam (nl)
2009 - 2011
SAINT JEAN Artistic residency with association De L’Aire in the town of
Saint Jean en Royan for the Parc régional du Vercors (fr)
2011
PALACE commissioned by Gabi Farage and Michelangelo Pistoletto for
Evento2011 in Bordeaux (fr)

13. LE TUNNEL / SAINT JEAN / 2011 METAVILLA / VENICE / 2006
UFO / WARSAW / 2011 LE TUNNEL / SAINT JEAN / 2011
BURNINGHAM / BIRMINGHAM / 2011 UFO / WARSAW / 2011
SOUTHWARK LIDO / LONDON / 2008

14. LABICHAMPI / KAROSTA / 2007
DALSTON MILL / LONDON / 2009