ARCHITECTURE À EMPORTER

With Architecture à Emporter, designer and interior architect Marion Mailaender inaugurates a new collection dedicated to design in all its forms — architecture, objects, fashion — as well as DIY and open-source practices. This first volume explores architecture as a work in progress and celebrates the aesthetics of the unfinished. The project highlights the construction phases that shape space, serving as a reminder that the work is never truly complete. Here, the unfinished becomes an invitation to see architecture not as a fixed object, but as an art form in perpetual motion. By repurposing simple materials — quick to assemble, low-cost, and usually hidden from view — to create functional objects, the artist questions contemporary practices that too often favor demolition over transformation. The light fixtures in this series — made of plasterboard (BA13), galvanized rails, drywall screws, switches, energy-saving spotlights, and a simple box cutter — embody this approach: turning the ordinary into a space for invention, and the building site into a work in progress. The plans for the four proposed models serve as starting points to be reinterpreted. This open, accessible approach invites everyone to imagine new forms and uses — an architecture to go, but above all, to reinvent.