The next element of form in Tschumi’s design comes by way of the points (or 26 red follies), which are based upon deconstructed cubes placed 120 meters apart from one
another in a grid pattern. A folly is a decorative element used in a garden however, in the Parc de la Villette,
they act as something entirely different.
Using the rules of transformation (i.e. repetition, distortion, superimposition, and fragmentation)
Tschumi has designed the follies without any functional considerations. In fact, their only role is
to create a matrix that work to organise the park and act as reference points to visitors within
the park (Papadakis, 1988).
The follies themselves are associated with the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and imply that it is impossible to define meaning in any form of communication accurately
because there are always many different meanings that exist.
Thus, the follies, through their own lack of meaning, become Tshumi’s way of displaying
the ideas behind the theory of deconstruction since they themselves
lack any real meaning.