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>
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