Ayo Emile (Emile Aillaud) French architect

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Ayo Emil (Emile Aillaud - architecte français, Mexico, 1902 - Paris, 1988). Basic construction: Quarters Les Courtillières (1955-1965), Le Pont-de-Pierre (1959-1969) in Pantin (Pantin); residential complex de l'Abreuvoir (1952-1964) in Bobigny (Bobigny); residential complex Le Wiesberg (1959-1972) in Forbash (Forbach); residential areas La Grande Borne (1983-1986) Grigny and La Noé (1966-1984) Chanteloup-les-Vignes; residential quarter Pablo-Picasso (1972-1979) Nanterre; residential complex la Tête Défense (1972-1980) La Défense; school groups in the Jean-Jaurès, Les Courtillières (1957-1967) in Pantin (Pantin) and Marne-la-Vallee, 1976. Architectural E. Ajo program focused exclusively on the "social" types of housing and low-cost construction using industrial methods. For art is characterized by the continuity of constructive and plastic searching.
Thus, the method of panel construction was in the ensembles Bobigny, Pantin and Grigny new artistic comprehension through free wavy lines plan and general plan. One of the first in Europe E. Ajo began to apply the method of sliding formwork for building tower-type (a set of Le Wiesberg). In most works Ayo acts as an architect and urban planner at the same time. His home-quarters in La Grande Borne, Bobigny and Forbach reflect the characteristic of French architecture of the late 1960-1970-s the escalating trend of individual architectural volumes for urban education, but, unlike the common strukturalistichnosti this direction, composite solutions E. Ajo marked more Plastic freedom and irregularity.
Development of urban plans is refracted in his work through a kind of scenario in which programmed visual impressions. By "play" the scenario is drawn, as a rule, the full range of architectural and artistic expression - spatial effects, plastic and polychrome architectural forms, elements of improvement and works of plastic arts. The work of E. Ajo collaborates with artists F. Rieti, L. Fanti, E. Lukaszewicz, J. Ayo (son of the architect) and sculptors L. Rieti, F. Lalanne.
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In the 70 years the French architects began to make extensive use of color. In urban landscapes of 60-ies dominated ahromatika. The architecture of those years, especially the mass, was identified with the gray concrete. The appearance of color was provoked by the wave of the concrete architecture, but the cause was rooted in the need to humanize the urban environment, to link it with multicolored natural environment, make it a color elements of the culture, listen to the wishes of the residents.
Different positions of prominent French architects (E. Ayo, A. and K. Vozhanskogo Shnaydta) for the use of color helps ensure a multiplicity of points of view on the role of color in architecture. These views are shared by more narrow specialists - colorists consultants, the nature of their activities directly associated with the architects. This specialty has acquired the rights of citizenship in France in the 50's, and now no neighborhood or industrial zone, no large public buildings are not designed without the participation of colorist consultant. Grew up a whole galaxy of representatives of the profession. Among them - J. Fillacier, B. Lassyus, J. F. l'Enclos, F. Rieti, etc.
E. Ayo: "I would say that the most significant in the appearance of the city that makes it incomprehensible that transforms him into the world of intricate and colorful, like a labyrinth, the world is truly poetic, does not meet the terms of logic."
The search aims to achieve the illusion of random, but the element of chance is for a particular purpose, he discovers in the end, some hidden order. For E. Ajo architecture - a world where color is of equal importance with its material basis, and unlike the typical functional-conceptual use of color, usually local, Ayo apply color without any direct connection with the geometry of form. Such use of color enriches the emotional architecture. Polychrome is conceived as a single color environment, rather than individual strokes on the facades of buildings.
( "Western architecture", Stroiizdat, 1987)

Photo 2, 3 and 4. Portraits of French poets at the ends of buildings (a mosaic of gray ceramic tiles, F. Rieti) on one of the squares of the residential area in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Greater Paris, mid 70-ies).

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Photo 1-3. Residential quarter Pablo-Picasso (1972-1979) Nanterre
The original atmosphere of the area creates an active introduction of polychrome. Colorist F. Rieti maximizes wall surface of the multi-storey tower houses, designed by E. Ajo for supergraficheskih compositions based on natural motifs.

Photo 4-10. Residential area La Grande Borne (1983-1986) Grigny