Internet Users' Favorite of the 2025 Architecture Hopes Award: 4 Student Projects from ENSAPLV in the Running
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Vote online before February 9, 2026, to choose the winner of the Internet Users’ Favorite Award of the Architecture Hopes Prize, organized by BNP Paribas Real Estate!
This 18th edition invited architecture students to envision a project for transforming vacant tertiary buildings located in France, exploring adaptation to climate change through several approaches: protecting users from climate hazards, the evolution and sharing of uses, the resilience of existing buildings, and reducing environmental impact.
The winner or winning team of the Internet Users’ Favorite Award will receive €2,000.
Every vote counts! Thank you for your support.
Bobigny Délire
par Maxime Caudrelier et Malaury Pierre, étudiants en M1
Everyone dreams of finding their El Dorado. Their oasis of freshness. A building that breathes, a green building where you can garden with your neighbors in the heart of a city. A place where you don’t just live in your living room, but in a variety of common spaces. Come visit your reality of tomorrow.
CASANOVA
by Alix Godfrin and Angèle Naudin, M2 student
Ordinary, yet strategic: an office building in Ivry-sur-Seine becomes the prototype of a systemic renovation. Replicable and adaptable, it mitigates and adjusts to the climate and its uses.
Waiting for the storm
by Romane Toussaint, M1 student
Where rain accumulates, the habitat becomes soaked. This project proposes rethinking the use of an office building as a true hydraulic machine in order to coexist with water. It offers a model based on ‘working with,’ welcoming water and transforming it into a resource rather than a threat.
From desk to plate, DÈMEN KA KILTIVÉ
by Morgane Lelouey-Rault, M1 student
In Guadeloupe, a vacant commercial building becomes a place that shelters, nourishes, and connects. An architecture that works with water, sun, and life to inhabit the climate before it imposes itself.
Discover the 4 shortlisted projects
<p>“Bobigny Délire” Project – © Maxime Caudrelier et Malaury Pierre</p> 
<p>Maxime Caudrelier et Malaury Pierre </p> 
<p>CASANOVA” project – © Alix Godfrin et Angèle Naudin</p> 
<p>Alix Godfrin et Angèle Naudin </p> 
<p>“Waiting for the storm” project – © Romane Toussaint</p> 
<p>Romane Toussaint </p> 
<p>“From desk to plate, DÈMEN KA KILTIVÉ” project – © Morgane Lelouey-Rault</p> 
<p>Morgane Lelouey-Rault </p>
News
Japan in the spotlight from March 2 to 16, 2026
ENSA Paris-la Villette is delighted to welcome a delegation from its Japanese partner universities: The University of Tokyo, Meiji University, Chiba University, Tokyo City University, Insitute of Science Tokyo, Kyoto University, Kyushu University.
Their visit, made possible thanks to funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, is accompanied by a number of events that will benefit the school’s students, alumni and teaching staff, most of which will also be open to the general public. Course presentations, round tables and conferences, as well as an exhibition, will provide ample opportunity for meetings and exchanges.
This event is intended both as a retrospective celebrating the educational, scientific and human relations that have linked ENSAPLV and its Japanese academic partners for several decades, and as an opportunity to initiate new research and educational projects co-constructed on promising themes for the future.
6th edition of the Résidences d'architecture: At the tempo of the territories!
Application deadline: March 25, 2026
The call for applications is open to architects and architecture graduates, with one or more other specialists (please refer to the selection procedures specific to each residence).As part of the 6th edition of the residency program, supported by the Caisse des dépôts Mécénat, the Conseil national de l’Ordre des architectes and the French Ministry of Culture, Maisons de l’architecture offers teams of specialists organized around an architect or architecture graduate, the opportunity to create a cultural project during a residency in a given territory and context.
For several weeks, these residents work in immersion, living on site and meeting local players (residents, elected representatives, etc.).
COAL Student Award 2026: The Night
Application deadline: April 28, 2026
Created in 2019, the Student COAL Prize aims to support students from Schools in the artistic and cultural field who are experimenting with and proposing concrete, creative solutions to the ecological transition.
The theme of the 2026 edition is “Night”.
Two prizes are on offer this year: the winning student receives a two-month residency worth 5,000 euros in one of France’s 350 nature reserves. The three nominated students also receive an invitation to take part in the Regenerative Academy. This unique masterclass, created and piloted for the new MAIF Métamorphoses Prize, is dedicated to transformative artistic practices in and with nature, biodiversity and public engagement.
The call for applications is open to all students who have completed 2 years of higher education, whatever their practice and field of study (design and applied arts, architecture and landscape, visual arts, music, dance, theater, circus, puppetry, cinema, audiovisual, multimedia) and up to one year after graduation.
Bourse dessinée 2026
Deadline for receipt of applications: April 2, 2026
The call for applications is open to students enrolled in 2025-2026 in a national school of architecture, from L2 to Master’s level.The aim of this grant, organized by the Cité de l’architecture in partnership with the ENSAÉCO network, is to support a personal research-creation process carried out exclusively through hand-drawing, seen as a critical, sensitive and exploratory tool, focusing on contemporary ecological issues.
Each year, a different theme is proposed. The four winners will produce their own sketchbook, each receiving a lump-sum grant of €4,000 gross, paid as royalties in return for the transfer of rights to the works produced as part of the project, under the conditions defined in the contract.
This year’s theme is “Inhabiting the living”: towards an architecture in dialogue with the animal and plant world.
ENSAPLV commits to equal opportunities in access to architectural studies
In partnership with the Fondation Culture & Diversité, the school is hosting its first “Equal opportunities at the school of architecture” course, from February 9 to 13.
Students taking part in this program benefit from courses, visits to cultural institutions, building sites and/or agencies, and meetings with teachers and professionals. Together, they produce an architectural project.
The aim is to inform them about architectural studies and career opportunities, and to prepare them for the Parcoursup and selection procedures for the Écoles nationales supérieures d’architecture (ENSA). Admitted students are then supported throughout their university studies.
3007 visitors to Open Day 2026
On Saturday February 7, ENSA Paris-la Villette welcomed a large number of visitors who came to find out more about studying architecture and the specific features of ENSA Paris-la Villette: the range of initial and specialized courses on offer, admissions procedures, the course of studies, international mobility, careers in architecture and professional integration, student life…
Alone, with friends or family, visitors wandered around the school premises to discover the student work on display (architectural projects, performing arts and techniques, plastic arts, etc.) and to meet students, teachers and administrative staff, who were on hand to answer any questions.
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