Architectural project

Students introduced to the fundamentals of urban planning and the relationship between use and architectural design will find this unit an in-depth study of theoretical and methodological tools for urban renewal projects. In line with the orientations of the Chaire EFF et T expérimenter faire fabriquer et transmettre (http://chaire-effet.net/) and the LET laboratory (laboratoire espaces transformations), and in sharing with various local stakeholders, the aim is to learn by doing: by constructing and then submitting to citizen debate a reciprocal questioning between strategic visions of urban development, and position statements in the form of concrete intervention proposals. The work process aims to question and deepen the links between the activities of diagnosing, programming and designing, with the objective of making the reasoning process increasingly explicit and capable of being submitted to debate.

Continuous assessment 50%, final report 50%. The following are assessed: responsibility for the approach taken, including an awareness of risk-taking; relevance, rigor and depth of theoretical and methodological choices; suitability for the project situation, habitability and constructability of the spatial devices proposed; clarity of presentations, listening skills during exchanges and ability to ́integrate critical contributions.

ATTENTION: Due to the high number of applications, interested students are invited to submit by September 27, 2024 to the teaching team via the following three email addresses
bendicht.weber@paris-lavillette.archi.fr
margotte.lamouroux@paris-lavillette.archi.fr
valentina.moimas@centrepompidou.fr
a message of approximately one A4 page specifying their motivations for joining the course, as well as their previous pedagogical and/or professional experience in connection with participatory approaches.

During the semester, you will be required to carry out fieldwork; prepare and conduct discussions with the various stakeholders on site; develop analyses, exploratory projects and then test projects; formulate the project issues and problems on a regular basis.

PAR-DELÀ LA MODERNITÉ (PDLM) – ASIAN TOURS: Ulan Bator and Phnom Penh

LANGUAGE OF TEACHING: French
LANGUAGE(S) OF COMMUNICATION : English, Spanish

This in-depth project unit is associated with the international workshops Ulan-Bator (to be held in September 2023) and Phnom Penh (to be held in February 2024)

It precedes and anticipates the diploma supervision of unit PFE02, PDLM – Retour d’Asie.

This association enables students to confront a unique extra-European urban situation by setting up real fieldwork. While on site, they develop their ability to observe, describe and understand unique architectural devices and urban systems, and then draw lessons and principles from them, to be transposed (or not) to the proposal and production phase of projects at different scales.

ENSAPLV teachers: Olivier Boucheron (architect-nelobo), Mina Sharouz (architect, anthropologist LAA)
as well as Nava Meron (architect/urban planner-LAA), Benoît Jacquet (architect-EFEO), Alessia de Biase (architect/anthropologist-LAA).

For Phnom Penh

Work on approaching the city, a sort of first ‘remote fieldwork’, throughout the semester and in four phases/exercises:
– Bibliographical research, press reviews and thematic research
– Outreach exercise with diasporas from the countries concerned in the Paris region
– Historical cartography on QGis
– Architectural research based on a model
– Architectural and urban project ‘at a distance’

For Ulan-Bator

Work on materials collected during the fieldwork and first phase of proposals-projects.

As the number of places in this course is limited (around 12), we would like each student interested in this course to send us a short letter of motivation, explaining in particular their background and the themes they would like to tackle for their future Master’s thesis.

Applications should be sent to olivier.boucheron@paris-lavillette.archi.fr during back-to-school selection week for Phnom Penh, and in June of the previous year for Ulaanbaatar.

For both trips, participating students receive a minimum of 700 euros in airfare support from ENSAPLV.

To develop the analytical and project tools and a body of knowledge that will enable students to develop urban form projects and produce residential fabrics in the critical context of contemporary urban peripheries.

– Continuous assessment: 40%
– Presentation of completed exercise: 60%.

The project course is a full-day event.
The mornings are devoted to lectures, courses and visits; the afternoons to exercise correction.
During the first few weeks, the group work will focus on site analysis, followed by the first major orientations of the urban project, the configuration of public spaces and thoroughfares, programming, typological choices and their location, the landscape structure, etc. The final weeks will be devoted to the preliminaries of the actual architectural projects, which must be carried out in pairs or triples.
Type of work required :
– Graphic analyses and written comments, density calculations and comparisons;
– Site models;
– Overall development project and detailed arguments;
– Plans, sections and volumetry of architectural projects, typological references, study model, etc.

The role of the scenographer has always been closely linked to architecture, since it consists in inventing and materializing the space and itinerary of the imaginary journey to which the theater, city or ceremony invites the spectator. Scenography offers a privileged field of study for the design of spaces intended to establish relationships between sender and receiver, extending the field of research to all designs for spaces intended for contact, exchange and representation. It regulates the spectator’s relationship to the work in a certain symbolic context.
To approach cultural facility projects with performance venues requires a knowledge of scenography, in order to imagine a place that is conducive to creation, starting from the tool itself and serving it.

Continuous control

– The scenography of a play in collaboration with the Théâtre de la Colline
– Various TDs on performance venues
– programmatic and urban analyses

GENERAL THEMATICS: Environment(s), architecture and landscape. PROJECT IN S9: Architecture and Environment

Starting from the premise that human beings need a suitable environment in which to live and work, the project workshop aims to design new worlds, in which people live in harmony with their local environment.

The teaching aims to : 

the design of an architectural, urban and landscape project, through its ecological dimension and the creation of sustainable architecture,
– the radical nature of the project, through the development of a critical mindset relating to the environmental challenges of the 21st century,
– the coherence of the project as a whole. This is achieved by manipulating different scales in a non-linear process.

Creating micro-climates

Living environment(s) are defined as compounds of living and non-living organisms, embodying the interaction between man and nature, the biological and the social. This implies a multi-criteria design process. The project is therefore not limited to the program and its site, but opens up to its environment.

The aim is to create micro-climates, in which architecture and plants are the major components of the environment. Eco-technical issues play a major role in this design.
You will have to design the project in a sustainable and frugal approach, by manipulating :
– climatic data (wind, sun, rain)
– natural resources (water, nature and its soil)

Architecture

Based on the notion of environment, architectural design is founded on :
– creating capable, adaptable spaces. The starting point is a minimal space, whose external extensions you design.
– university lifestyles that influence spatiality,
– pre-selected shapes (grid, street, grid street, u-shape, etc.) whose geometries are recognized as being among the best suited to the constitution of the environment.
– frugal facade envelopes with high comfort performance

Theoretical courses

The courses guide your research during the project.
They introduce :
– the contemporary world (the ethics of returning to the land, biodiversity, living and cultivating, etc.),
– Japanese spatiality, which contributes to “relearning how to live outside”,
– industrial aesthetics (Case Study house, Eames), which combines the search for volumetric simplicity with constructive optimization (Cedric Price, Glenn Murcutt).

ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY AT ALL SESSIONS.
Continuous assessment + intermediate reports + final jury.

Representation plays a major role in the project.
It is inseparable from the vision of the relationship between territory and project
There is a correlation between the way of thinking and the way of representing.

As a result, the expected documents are the subject of a course on representation
and of precise indications, according to a graphic charter.
The production of models at different scales is an integral part of rendering.

Formats and graphic elements are listed before each intermediate rendering.
Rendering is done individually and/or in sub-groups.

Selected bibliography:
Richard Sennett, Bâtir et Habiter, pour une éthique de la Ville, Albin Michel, 2019
Esther Mc Coy, Case study house (1945-1962), June 1977
Peter Cook, Experimental Architecture, Studio Vista London, 1970
Philippe Rahm, ” Histoire Naturelle de l’architecture “, comment le climat… “, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, 2020.
Florence Lipsky, “Le Climat”, Archiscopie magazine, autumn 2020
Augustin Rosenstiehl, ‘Capital agricole’, December 2019, Pavillon de l’Arsenal
Edward Mazria, Guide de la maison solaire, Editions Parenthèses, 2005
David Wright, Manuel d’Architecture Naturelle, Editions Parenthèses, 2006.
Peter Zumthor, Thinking architecture, Birkhauser, 2007
Peter Zumthor, Atmosphere, Birkhauser, 2007

A GLOBAL PROBLEM, A LOCAL SOLUTION, between theory and practice.

The aim of this workshop is to study and critique the proposals of the City in Transition movement, and to illustrate this possible transformation of all the spaces of a concrete territory. This year, the focus will be on the challenges facing the town of FIGEAC, and how to think about and organize the territory’s evolution. This year, the workshop benefits from an agreement to finance travel and accommodation for the group of students on the site, and to meet with local players, working in particular on the theme of reuse.

Our approach will therefore be :
– to understand a system or problem as a whole,
– to observe how the parts of a system are connected,
– to repair failing systems, applying ideas learned from sustainable, mature, functioning systems,
– to learn from functioning natural systems to rethink the relationship between human beings and ecosystems, the places in which they have settled and which they have damaged with their agricultural and urban systems, mostly through lack of knowledge and ethics.

The principles of the City in Transition will be analyzed and critiqued, exploring their potential for recomposing architecture, the city and the landscape, from the territorial scale to that of the individual building, envisaging the project as an illustration of the possibilities of these territories.

The first two phases of work (analysis of the theoretical corpus, definition of a collective strategy) are not the subject of a specific note.

However, the work carried out (individually for the theoretical corpus; collectively for the strategy) is the subject of juries, in which comments and advice are given. These two phases constitute the essential stages of the semester’s continuous assessment, weighting the grade given by the end-of-semester jury, which evaluates the third individual phase.

Students are assessed on their ability to take individual responsibility for the construction of collective knowledge, to work in small groups (4 to 5 people), and to develop an architectural and urban project individually.

Sessions are held weekly, and the emphasis is on coherence between project thinking and its graphic and oral expression, resulting in a project that demonstrates a real capacity for argumentative proposition. The workshop is organized in the form of correction/debate sessions between the students themselves and the teaching staff. At the beginning of the semester, the teaching staff will survey the work area. The teaching team is made up of two architects/landscape architects.

The bibliography is explored in the first phase of the workshop.

Urban architecture, a dialogue between city and nature:
The aim is to overcome the opposition between city and nature, between architecture and landscape. The transformation of mentalities that will enable us to break with the alienation of urban dwellers from nature requires the invention of a new architecture and a new ecology capable of transforming the present-day city. We therefore need to learn to work on the basis of urbanized neighborhoods posing a variety of problems, rather than advocating a one-size-fits-all utopia (towers in nature, the garden city, ecological housing estates).

Continuous assessment: 50% and final exam: 50%.

A small number of seminar sessions will be devoted to establishing a design working method.

P904 – Title: Le lien manquant – Colmar – Neuf-Brisach – Breisach am Rhein (DE)

Workshop framework
The workshop focuses on the reading, analysis, understanding and transformation of a study site from the urban to the architectural scale. The aim is to build on the qualities of the sites studied and to project the transformation of built spaces, demonstrating that it is possible to create a strong architectural work through intervention on existing buildings.

The choice of the Colmar-Freiburg Franco-German cross-border area as the setting for the workshop enables participants to grasp the specific features of these cross-border territories, with their eventful history offering a wide variety of study sites.

The simultaneous work of three schools of architecture (Paris-La Villette, Strasbourg, Grenoble) on the same territory will bring out a global and diversified view of the possible futures of this part of the Upper Rhine.

IMPORTANT : Travel
A trip to discover this cross-border study site will take place from Thursday 10/10 morning to Saturday 12/10/2024 evening, together with students from ENSA Strasbourg and ENSA Grenoble. Participation in this trip is compulsory.

Context and hypothesis of the projects
The selected prospective scenario consists in revitalizing an Alsatian territory through the reactivation of the Colmar (France) – Freiburg (Germany) railway line. This line, which crosses the Franco-German border along the Rhine, was partially destroyed during the Second World War and will once again become a link between the two countries. The project is one of the 15 priority projects of the Treaty of Aachen, and studies for its realization are underway.

The workshop assumes that, with the rebuilding of the bridge over the Rhine and the opening of the rail line, this new mobility offer will trigger a restructuring and modernization of the station districts in the urban centers concerned. Three diversified project sectors have been identified in three towns along the railroad line: Colmar (Haut-Rhin prefecture), Neuf-Brisach (major Vauban site, UNESCO heritage site), and Breisach (historic town on the Rhine in Germany).

The built situations envisaged include buildings from different eras, fortified structures and infrastructures. The workshop experiments with interventions on existing buildings and their urban context. Students will aim to transform and complement existing buildings, adapting them to the new demands of society. They will imagine how to respond to contemporary challenges, including the ecological emergency, and experiment with low-carbon construction.

The project workshop is part of a collaboration with the cross-border master’s project workshop at ENSA Strasbourg, directed by Dominik Neidlinger, and a master’s project workshop at ENSA Grenoble, led by Frédéric Dellinger. It takes place in partnership with local players.

Teachers : Christian HORN – Quentin LE NORMANT
Timetable: Friday 9am-5pm
Language of instruction: French
Language of communication: French, English, German

Evaluation based on intermediate and final reports
– Urban analysis and collective development guidelines
– Analysis sheet for a rehabilitated building
– Architectural project
– Minimum score for architectural project: 8

Collective organization of the workshop, coordination of work within groups, distribution of tasks.
Design, representation and presentation of an urban and heritage analysis, as well as urban planning guidelines, collective work in student groups.
Writing and presentation of an analysis of a rehabilitated building in the Île-de-France region, pair/individual work.
Design, representation and presentation of an architectural project to transform an existing building, working in pairs/individually.

Presented at the beginning of the workshop and completed during the semester. An online file is available with various documents on the study site, and the intervention on the existing site.

The scales of reuse

This project workshop explores the multiscalar dimension of reuse architecture, addressing the multiple dimensions of architectural design: constructive, programmatic, symbolic, aesthetic, thermal and spatial. This exploration is considered on the scale of the building – maintenance, rehabilitation, restructuring, reversibility, transformation -, on the scale of the material – repair, reuse, assembly – and on the scale of a territory – flows, channels, land.
This approach aims to strengthen students’ material culture by questioning the boundaries between the notions of matter, material, construction product and building component, and by approaching the architectural design process at the level of the component and its ability to be assembled.

Beyond a technical and materialist approach to the act of building, the notion of reuse architecture is based on a narrative of construction and materiality through design work that extends from the scale of detail to that of the building and its urban integration.

In particular, it explores the architectural consequences of repair, maintenance and deconstructibility, as well as strategies for diverting use and extending lifespan. The constructive storytelling of reuse also aims to reinterrogate the notion of heritage, broadening its scope from buildings to the materials that make them up.

Evaluation method
– Group and sub-group interactive corrections (continuous assessment 50%)
– Final rendering (50%)

Evaluation criteria
– Active participation in group corrections
– Ability to collaborate and conduct constructive criticism in the workshop
– Involvement and progress during the semester
– Coherence and relevance of architectural proposals in relation to workshop themes
– Quality of deliverables and architectural representation

Short exercise :
– Design of a reused structural component: Geometrics and 1/10 scale model,
– Architectural and landscape integration, geometries and 1:50 scale collective model
– Design notebook analyzing the stages in the reuse process

Long exercise :
Architectural, urban and heritage diagnosis of a building :
– Plans, sections, elevations from 1/200 to 1/50,
– Surveys and details at 1:20 scale,
– Architectural, urban and construction analysis diagrams
– Documentary research and reporting
– Diagnosis of resources for reuse
– Drafting an architectural program

Architectural project :
– Plans, sections, elevations from 1/200 to 1/50,
– Details from 1/5th to 1/10th
– Architectural, urban and construction analysis diagrams
– Model from 1/200th to 1/100th
– Detailed model from 1/10th to 1/33rd scale

BENOIT J., SAUREL G., BILLET M., BOUGRAIN F. and LAURENCEAU S. REPAR#2. Le réemploi, passerelle entre architecture et industrie. Report. Paris, ADEME, 2018

BLAKE P. Form follows fiasco. Little, Brown and Company, USA, 1983

DAVID Eric DAVID Stéphanie and GANGAROSSA Laurie, L’art d’accommoder les restes. Lyon, Editions Deux cent cinq, 2024

ENCORE HEUREUX ARCHITECTES (eds.) Matière grise. Matériaux/Réemploi/ Architecture. Paris, Éditions B2, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2014

FRAMPTON K. Studies in Tectonic Culture, The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Tweentieth Century Architecture. Cambridge (MA), The MIT Press, 1995

FORD E. R. The Architectural Detail. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

GHYOOT M., DEVLIEGER L., BILLET L. and WARNIER A. Deconstruction and reuse. Comment faire circuler les éléments de construction. Lausanne, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2018

HUYGEN J-M La poubelle et l’architecte. Vers le réemploi des matériaux, Arles, Actes Sud collection L’impensé, 2008

ROLLOT M, Décoloniser l’architecture, Paris, Le Passager clandestin, 2024

SIMAY P. Bâtir avec ce qui reste, Quelles ressources pour sortir de l’extractivisme? Paris, Terre Urbaine, collection L’Esprit des villes, 2024

SIMONNET C. L’Architecture ou la fiction constructive. Paris, Éditions de la Passion, 2001

The aim is for students to acquire the foundations of real expertise in a field: the rehabilitation-restructuring of ordinary residential heritage, which represents a growing professional outlet for young architects.

Regular progress of studies, relevance of analyses, consistency and quality of final project in relation to objectives.

The project, apprehended at multiple scales, both urban and detailed, will be developed through morphological and constructive studies of existing buildings, culminating in detailed plans and large-scale models.
A contribution from teachers in the STA field will therefore be welcome, both on structural issues and on energy rehabilitation.

Doyon Georges, Hubrecht Robert, Architecture rurale et bourgeoise en France, Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1969
Frédet Jacques, Les Maisons de Paris : Types courants de l’architecture mineure parisienne, L’Encyclopédie des Nuisances, 2003
Frédet Jacques, Les enseignements hygrothermiques des bâtiments d’habitation préindustriels, in d’Architectures n°207, avril 2012
Frédet Jacques, Architecture : Mettre en forme et composer, 13 volumes, Éditions de la Villette, 2018-2019
Frédet Jacques, Guide du diagnostic de structures dans les bâtiments d’habitation anciens, Éditions du Moniteur, 2018
Graf Franz, Marino Giulia, Les dispositifs du confort dans l’architecture du 20e siècle: connaissance et stratégie de sauvegarde, Ed. PPUR, 2016
Graf Franz, Histoire matérielle du bâti et projet de sauvegarde, Ed. PPUR, 2014
Gueissaz Philippe, Steinmann Martin, Zurbruchen Bernard, Le Patrimoine habité, Cahier de Théorie 9, Ed. PPUR
Marchand Bruno, Joud Christophe, Surélévations, conversations urbaines, inFolio, 2018

RURAL RESOURCES
An off-the-wall workshop in Charente-Maritime

This workshop experiments with cross-disciplinary teaching by bringing together two studios (S7 and S9) in the same field of study. This approach makes it possible to pool means and resources around an “Hors-les-Murs” workshop, bringing in a plurality of viewpoints.

PREVIOUS WORK: https://www.calameo.com/accounts/7775670

1. PEDAGOGICAL OBJECTIVES

Background. Faced with today’s ecological, economic and societal changes, rural areas are the focus of tomorrow’s challenges. While the artificialization of agricultural and natural land has continued at a steady pace for several decades, we are paradoxically witnessing the desertification of town centers, a deterioration in the quality of life, and the decline of public services. This dual trend of urban sprawl versus desertification is accompanied by the brutal development of bypass infrastructures and industrial estates, in stark contrast to the patient, reasoned evolution of a human settlement in harmony with its natural resources. At the same time, rising real estate prices in urban centers and a growing awareness of the preciousness of rural areas are foreshadowing a renewed interest in rural communities.
These paradigm shifts in rural areas demonstrate the need for in-depth attention to anticipate short-, medium- and long-term challenges.

Practical experience. Through a partnership between ENSAPLV and the Charente Maritime DDTM, a 4-day “Atelier Hors les Murs” at the beginning of the semester enables students to put their projects into practice and meet the players involved (residents, elected representatives, architects and landscape architects, DDTM, CAUE, ABF).
This year, we propose to study the town of MARENNES. The aim is to freely question pre-existing situations, through a phase of diagnosis and detailed understanding of the existing situation, as well as the formulation of a problematic that will serve as the basis for concrete explorations of projects, developed right down to the architectural detail.

Restitution and dissemination. At the end of the semester, the work carried out will be presented in MARENNES in the form of a publication and a travelling exhibition. This phase of dissemination extends the dialogue initiated and the questions raised, which we hope will find continuities and bridges with other fields or subsequent developments.

– The workshop is designed to accommodate a maximum of 30 students. Students are expected to be highly motivated, dedicated and willing to work as part of a team (collective coordination and project development in pairs). An interest in issues related to intervention in existing buildings, as well as an ability to produce models, is imperative.
– Participation in the Hors Les Murs workshop on site compulsory (full costs covered by the School and the DDTM) – October 18 to 21, 2023.
– Compulsory weekly presentation to the whole studio, with systematic use of physical models and geometric drawings as exploration tools.
– Intermediate juries attended by external speakers (collective workshop discussion).
– Final jury on site in PONS with preparation and compulsory participation in the exhibition opening on site in Marans: Presentation of the project and all the work carried out over the six-month period to elected representatives and residents (models + A0 panels) – full costs covered by the School and the DDTM – February 02, 2024.

– The workshop is designed to accommodate a maximum of 30 students. Students are expected to be highly motivated, dedicated and willing to work as part of a team (collective coordination and project development in pairs). An interest in issues related to intervention in existing buildings, as well as an ability to produce models, is imperative.
– Participation in the Hors Les Murs workshop on site compulsory (full costs covered by the School and the DDTM) – from OCTOBER 16 to 19, 2024.
– Compulsory weekly presentation to the whole studio, with systematic use of physical models and geometric drawings as exploration tools.
– Intermediate juries attended by external speakers (collective workshop discussion).
– Final jury on site in MARENNES with preparation and compulsory participation in the exhibition opening on site in Marans: Presentation of the project and all the work carried out over the six-month period to elected representatives and residents (models + A0 panels) – full costs covered by the School and the DDTM – JANUARY 31, 2024.

Languages :

– The workshop is held in French, with the possibility of exchange and discussion in English.
– Intermediate proficiency in French is required to communicate with elected representatives, local residents, partners, etc.

Keywords: 

Project economy, economy of means, circular economy, territorial economy, reuse, housing, equipment, urban strategies, architecture, concrete architecture, representation, ….

Presentation: 

As contemporary architecture becomes increasingly assimilated to a commodity, the project studio “REAAC. Recherches économiques appliquées à l’architecture contemporaine” project studio is interested in studying the relationships that gravitate between architectural production and its economic dimension. To this end, the studio explores the possibility of architectural design, taking as its starting point the economic question as a formal producer, and its material and usage dimensions.
If we analyze the history of architecture over the last century, we can see a striking consistency between the dominant economic model, market demand, its production model, social value, architectural production and the innovations developed by our society. Economic issues increasingly condition our lives as citizens and our practice as architects. They become an indispensable thermometer influencing our judgment and design choices. They enable us to be credible in architectural production, where any discourse based solely on composition or a certain formal aesthetic rings increasingly hollow. The aim is to make students aware of this fact by designing an architectural project in which the various economic aspects will be taken as the starting point for its conception and not as a subject to be dealt with later. This posture will be as open as possible, in order to bring out the intelligence of the project and its relevance within the socio-economic mechanisms of the fabrication of space. It won’t be a question of creating a thrifty project, nor of “costing” a building (unless you deem it necessary). Rather, we’re interested in understanding how quality in architecture is often linked to the economic dimension of the project (in the broadest sense of the term), and in defining the intrinsic conditions of necessity for each project. The more defined the mastery of constructive systems, resources or uses, the more obvious it becomes to conceive of an experimental posture. All the best examples in our field teach us this. In the end, this framework enables us to take an interest in the formal question, not as an aesthetic act, but as the construction of a critical thought process.

In order to gain an awareness of the subject in all its aspects, this year we’ll be looking at the design of a mixed-use program combining housing and public facilities. These mixed-use programs are playing an increasingly central role in the identification of contemporary territory. Their urban situation, their relationship to the already existing and the economic model that derives from them need to be reconsidered in depth. Imagine a mixed-use building not as a simple exchange value, but as an element that can be sustainably integrated into the socio-economic fabric of a city. To this end, we are interested in identifying what is strictly necessary for a building to “work”.

The studio’s work is based on exploring the possibility of designing an architectural project (by rehabilitating, elevating or rebuilding) that takes into account the specifics of a commission, a program and questions the conceptual and operational tools for its projection.
The aim of the proposed studio is to confront students with an extremely contemporary issue (the economy in the manufacture of space) that highlights the mechanisms of architectural and urban design in all its facets. The aim is to encourage them to take a stand, as architects, on this issue through relevant and feasible architectural proposals. The aim is to consider and critique situations typical of ordinary production, architecture and the city, and then use these skills to formulate alternative proposals in the form of an architectural project. It seems possible to reclaim this conceptual void, and the working group set up by the master’s studio can contribute to this by drawing up a critical reading and formulating concrete proposals. Particular attention will be paid to the material dimension of architectural design, its representation and implementation.

The project sites are renewed each year, and are chosen on the basis of their development needs and their urban and architectural relevance. Each student – in groups for the masters and then individually – will be free to choose their problem and their site of intervention (within the city of action).
For the academic year 2024-2025 the action site will be the city of Montereau-Fault-Yonne. The city is of particular interest to us first and foremost for its socio-economic framework. Current urban and cultural policies are also contributing to a major transformation of the city and its environment. In our view, this current situation brings together a multitude of issues that will feed into future projects. We’ll be looking at urban fabrics, current and future projects, at the dawn of the most open questioning possible on the definition of a city to be reinvented, such as Montereau is. The project work will be carried out in close collaboration with several local partners.

The semester will be validated in three ways:
# General approach: weekly work, participation in teaching activities, project progress, presentation at intermediate juries.
# Collective intelligence: presentations and debates during “architects’ cafés” (10%)
Long project: intermediate jury 1 (15%), intermediate jury 2 (25%), final jury (50%).

BOOKS

-Robert Venturi, Steven Izenouri, Denise Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas (MIT Press), 1964
-Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, New York, 1966
-Team 10 Meetings 1953-1981, Rizzoli, 1991
-Bruno Latour, Nous n’avons jamais été modernes. Essai d’anthropologie symétrique. Paris (La découverte),
1991
-Carol Willis, Form Follows Finance (Princenton Architectural Press) 1995
-Rem Koolhaas, Conversation with students. New York (Princeton Architectural Press), 1996.
– Pierre Bourdieu, Les Structures sociales de l’économie (Seuil) 2000.
-Moving from the crisis to sustainability. Emerging issues in the international context, (Franco Angeli), 2001
– Olle Eksell. Design=ekonomi.
– Roberto Gargiani, Giovanni Fanelli, Histoire de l’architecture moderne, 2008, Presses Polytechniques Romandes
– PIer Vittorio Aureli, Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism, 2014, Strelka Press
– David Harvey, Le capitalism contre le droit à la ville, 2011, Ed. Amsterdam
– Laurent Davezies, La crise qui vient, 2012, Ed du Seuil
– Pierre Veltz, L’économie désirable, 2021, Ed du Seuil
– Arnaud Pautet, Les défis du capitalisme, 2021, Ed. Dunod
– Jacques Lucan, Habiter Ville et architecture, 2021, EPFL PRESS
– Jacques Lucan, Composition, non-composition, 2009, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR)
– Jacques Lucan,Précisions sur un état présent de l’architecture, 2015, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR)
– Robert Venturi, De l’ambiguïté en architecture, (authorized translation of the work published in English under the title Complexity and contradiction in Architecture by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966). Paris Bordas 1976.
– Marc Bedarida, Fernand Pouillon. Paris, Editions du patrimoine/Centre des monuments nationaux, 2012. 208p
– Eric Lapierre, Economy of Means, how architecture works. Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Poetics of reasons. Lisbon, Poligrafa, 135p.
– Gilles Plum, The architecture of reconstruction. Edition Nicolas Chaudun, October 2011. 287p.
Team 10 Meetings 1953-1981, Rizzoli, 1991
-Bruno Latour, Nous n’avons jamais été modernes. Essai d’anthropologie symétrique. Paris (La découverte),1991
-Carol Willis, Form Follows Finance (Princenton Architectural Press) 1995
-Rem Koolhaas, Conversation with students. New York (Princeton Architectural Press), 1996.
– Pierre Bourdieu, Les Structures sociales de l’économie (Seuil) 2000.
-Moving from the crisis to sustainability. Emerging issues in the international context, (Franco Angeli), 2001
– Simplifions, Bernard QUIROT, Edition Cosa Mentale
– Pierre Caye, Durer, 2020, Ed Les Belles Lettres

ARTICLES

– Bruther and Laurent Stalder, Dixit 01- Hyperconfort. Editions Cosa Mentale, September 2020 62p.
– Richard Scoffier, True comfort is freedom. Interview with Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. D’architectures n°286, December 2020/February 2021, p28-36.

WEB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgurPuhAZGw and t=8s
What future for architecture? Economy of means versus new economy . Conference January 14, 2020, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine Paris. Debate with architects : Stéphanie Bru Bruther, Anne Démians, Éric Lapierre ÉLEx, Umberto Napolitano LAN, Moderation Francis Rambert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKybvRI6-bg and t=577s
What future for architecture? New contexts, new paradigms? Conference October 17, 2020, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine Paris. Debate with architects : Odile Decq; Gilles Delalex, MUOTO; Nicolas Dorval-Bory ; Valentine Guichardaz Versini, Atelier Rita ; Philippe Rahm, Modération Francis Rambert. https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/video/quel-futur-pour-larchitecture-nouveaux-contextes-nouveaux-paradigmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgurPuhAZGw and t=8s
Eric Lapierre’s conference on the banal and the ordinary:
http://www.tvk.fr/office/teaching-and-lectures/tvk-invite-eric-lapierre
https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/video/ikea-classicisme-andre-kempe-atelier-kempe-thill-rotterdam
David Harvey at The Future is Public conference in Amsterdam:

The aim of this project unit is:
– to increase the ability of architecture students to design architectural projects with an awareness of the realities of different contexts (cultural, economic, land….).
– develop their ability to mobilize their technical knowledge at the right moment in the project design process, and thereby deepen the relationship between architecture, constructive requirements and technical cultures,
– address the question of the project materialization process: the aim is to develop the project to the point of taking a stand on the approach to implementation, and to establish choice of materials and products, design and representation of details.
-confronting students with a project related to an existing building: the aim is to develop the project by assessing the potential for extending, heightening or rehabilitating the existing structure.

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