OASE
Landscape and Mass Tourism
Commissioned by Nai-publishers [2004]
Editing of journal, research, filming of modern winter sports resorts in France
Oase is a periodical about architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines that publishes a thematic issue three times a year.
The theme of Oase nr 64 is the impact of mass tourism on the landscape from the fifties onward and the meaning of large-scale architecture in this context. One interesting phenomenon to arise from all this are the modern, planned resorts for winter sports in France: ‘les machines à skier,’ which grew out of a deliberate French politics of giving every Frenchman – and woman – ‘le droite à la neige,’ or the right to snow.
Film
As studies and representative examples of this kind of urban organization and architecture, various winter resorts in France – among others, Aime La Plagne, Avoriaz, Les Arcs and Les Menuires – were filmed. A series of stills drawn from this material illustrates this phenomenon in the journal.
At the right, 5 montages:
1. Aime la Plagne, 3 March 2004
Monovolume, 2 min 34
2. Arc 1800, 2 March 2004
view from the parking lot, 2 min 40
3. Arc 1800, 2 March 2004
the boxer, 54 sec
4. Avoriaz, 5 March 2004
a section, 2min 58
5. Les Menuires, 1 March 2004
Place Joseph Fontanet, 2 min 40
Colophon
Editorial committee Oase 64
Like Bijlsma, Terenja van Dijk, Filip Geerts
Direction, production, scenario
Terenja van Dijk
Camera, sound
Terenja van Dijk
Editing
Terenja van Dijk and Jess De Gruyter