Plan Poché

Poché is the past participle of the verb of the French language pocher, the root, poche, t is the fundamental meaning of 'something empty, a little swollen'. Pocher is also related to Presser, which means 'to press, to harass', while Presser is 'to crowd, to crowd'. In common parlance, poche is 'pocket' and poché, its contents. Another interesting use of the term is écriture pochée: cal · ligraphy 'on letters, badly formed, are full of ink'. Pocher is also, in the field of Fine Arts, 'to sketch quickly', 'to fit in'. But what does poché mean in architecture? Various sources place it in the 'ateliers' of the École des Beaux-Arts in PARís, on the expressions poché pur and poché dilué designated the texture applied to solid elements and the residual àrees to the floors of buildings. 280 p.: Photo, Colour, plants and sections, 22x24 cm., Paperback