Follow-up to the PFE end-of-studies project

This PFE :
– provides students with a framework for their final year project, drawing on a range of skills, primarily (but not exclusively) those of teachers working on issues related to the teaching and other scientific and professional productions dealing with urban renewal and associated skills.
– offers a place where students can share and confront their issues, themes, approaches, modes of figuration, as well as the concrete problems they encounter in carrying out their PFE on a personal subject, developed in S9.
– implements dual supervision: individual/per group around each PFE, collective through themed workshops, designed as opportunities for ́exchanges and debates.

An intermediate evaluation concerns preparation for and contribution to mid-semester presentation workshops attended by external personalities, which should enable students to take clear stock of the progress made on their PFE, as well as the remaining work.
A second evaluation, also in the presence of people from outside the supervisory team, takes place at the end of the PFE development phase. Its aim is to assess the progress of the work carried out, but also to confirm – or not – whether or not the final project will be defended. This jury takes into account: the interest of the chosen subject and the problematic constructed; the conduct of the approach, in particular the assumption of responsibility and rigor on the theoretical and methodological levels. It is also interested in the student’s ability to take full advantage of opportunities for exchange during the semester (quality of successive contributions, handling of critical feedback, involvement in collective debates), and then to construct, explain and critically evaluate their own path towards a triple professional posture: reflective practitioner, critical intellectual, citizen architect.

To promote a rigorous and effective approach, we require careful preparation of individual and group discussion sessions, as well as the keeping of a logbook including reports on discussions during follow-up sessions and thematic workshops.

BEYOND MODERNITY (PDLM) – BACK FROM ASIA

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

This PFE course will enable students :

– approach the architectural and urban project of the PFE as a place for identifying and critically questioning contemporary anthropological, societal and morphological mutations.
– reconsider and update architectural and urban project methods, themes and proposals in the light of these developments.
– to take advantage of the experience of working in an unfamiliar, foreign city to sketch out a path to take, or rather one that allows us to make choices, and begin to define an attitude, to build an approach.

ENSAPLV teachers: Olivier Boucheron (architect-nelobo), François Bruneau (architect/urban planner-LAA),
as well as Benoît Jacquet (architect-EFEO), Alessia de Biase (architect/anthropologist-LAA), Nava Meron (architect/urban planner-LAA), Jean-Baptiste Eyraud (DAL)

Jury ‘blanc’ semestriel en juin qui validate la possibilité de soutenir le PFE en juillet.

This course is part of the school’s “Habiter les Mondes Urbains” (HMU) field of study.

The PFE project is the culmination of the Master’s course, and is part of a process of questioning and reflection, carried out by students within a particular field of study and developed in particular during the Master’s dissertation. Our aim is to ensure the continuity and pedagogical coherence of this PFE, articulating the acquisitions and reflections initiated previously as the theoretical core of this new project: depending on their background, students will have to clearly state the issues envisaged at the start of their work (programmatic, constructive, typological, etc.).
With this in mind, the aim of this PFE group is to explore the issue of collective housing in the Greater Paris metropolitan area, by proposing a more in-depth and forward-looking exploration of the question of collective housing through the prism of typological research, enabling new spatial and residential perspectives, crossed with renewed work on constructive approaches (construction methods, consideration of environmental issues).

Weekly corrections, intermediate jury and public defense.
In June, a pre-jury within the PFE group will validate or not the work and thus the possibility of defending the PFE
At the end of the semester, students defend their work before a jury composed of the teachers responsible for the PFE, another teacher from the school or a teacher from another school of architecture and a competent outside personality.

Project work will be carried out alone or in pairs.
Projects will be finalized in the conventional scales of a preliminary architectural project (1/500 for the general project, 1/200 and 1/100 for the housing plans; details at 1/50 and + if necessary; 3D representations and models, etc.).
The graphic documents will be accompanied by a detailed presentation and argumentation note, putting into perspective the student’s background and the thinking behind the project; this note will be given to the members of the jury. A record of the various stages of the project will be kept and presented at jury meetings.
Language of instruction: French

The general objective of this PFE is to support the student in the design of an architectural or urban project in the post-war urban territories of the Paris suburbs. More specifically, the PFE aims to:

* Articulate different scales of reflection: the building, the neighborhood, the city and the metropolis;
* Associate the project approach with institutional, political and civic expectations;
* Develop a personal problematic and translate it into an architectural or urban project;
* Draw on all disciplinary fields to form an analysis and adopt an architect’s posture;
* Design while developing a professional culture specific to urban renewal.

Assessment takes the form of weekly corrections, an intermediate jury and a final jury.

Students are expected to work individually, presenting the progress of their project on a weekly basis (research notebook, graphic and projection support, models), with support materials in line with the student’s project approach. For students working in pairs, supervision will be collective, but assessment will remain individual.

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.
In this interaction between scenography and architecture, we study the presentation of the place and the place of the performance.

continuous monitoring

Programmatic and urban analysis
Feasibility project

– Project design based on an iterative and articulated approach, on the scale of the building, the transformation strategy of the site to be built/requalified and that of the territory,

– Analysis and representation of the existing environment, the territory and the project site, demonstrating a detailed and attentive knowledge of the living and non-living environments, and of the geographical, landscape, environmental and urban issues at stake,

– A critical, forward-looking look at the evolution of the region, combining contemporary societal issues (protection of the environment and resources, changing lifestyles and relationships to work, etc.) with economic development issues, particularly the place of production in the region.

This course is designed as a workshop for experimenting with new architectural forms, discourses, reflections and research. Each student is invited to develop a personal project based on research and experimentation, which questions the architecture of the 21st century. The aim is to imagine the architectures of the future, to provide answers to the challenge of architecture in the face of the climatic, social, aesthetic and economic challenges of our time?

Rather than proposing a site and a problem, this workshop proposes an approach focused on taking a personal project from intention to architectural and constructive detail. For these reasons, special emphasis will be placed on the research approach. The research pathway will be integrated into the framework, as will the bi-curricular pathway.

First meeting Wednesday, September 2 at 5:00 p.m. in room 214

Weekly corrections, intermediate juries and public defense

Individual and group corrections, 2 intermediate juries with external experts

– Presentations and studies using various media (video projection, poster, booklet), production of study models at various scales, personalized graphic and textual production in line with the project.

In response to the changing face of territories and the challenges of sustainable development, this PFE Paysage/S aims to familiarize students with the development of an architectural or urban issue, starting with the study of a specific location and taking into account the importance of the environments in which it is situated. In order to design a building and/or transform a site, students will be invited to cross architectural, urban and landscape scales of analysis. They must learn to develop a holistic understanding of the needs of the places where they wish to intervene. For his project, he will rely on a “complex process” capable of grasping the cultural, social, economic and environmental issues of the place where he will be working. He will seek to go beyond the simple proposition of drawing an architecture or a finished piece of land, and imagine a project capable of forming a dynamic stratum, capable of giving meaning to fabrics in constant renewal.

Assessment is regular throughout the semester, and follows the different rhythms of the semester. It culminates in a final jury.

Rhythm of the semester: the semester is divided into two parts.
Phase 1: This is devoted to the sensitive recognition of the area chosen by the student. This phase leads to the emergence of a project strategy, the choice of a site and the definition of a program.
Period 2: This is a time devoted to experimentation and design. This phase relies on the student’s capacity for autonomy. This is the time when research will feed into the project and the chosen problem. Emphasis is placed on the coherence between project thinking and project expression, resulting in a project that demonstrates a real capacity for argumentative proposition.

At a time of lasting environmental uncertainty, when disasters linked to natural hazards are multiplying, intensifying and dramatically affecting more and more territories and their populations, this PFE group aims to develop the new installation skills that architecture deploys in the face of such a context.
Based on projects that are located, constructible and habitable, the aim is to pass on the appropriate architectural knowledge and know-how, which involves the skills needed to install this new climatic regime, in its urban, ecological, social, constructive and aesthetic aspects.
In this case, project knowledge is the skill that architecture offers to these fragile environments.
Natural hazards require us to “work with” the multiple realities of these places and environments. This means building processes of architectural invention based on scientific, geographical, climatic, economic, cultural and sensitive data.

Final exam: 100%.

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

INFORMATION MEETING MONDAY 30.09.2024 at 3 pm ROOM 207

Teaching in French,
Languages spoken: English, German,

– Cultivate autonomy
– Connect architectural culture, technology and society
– Test a personal approach through contact with contemporary society, its players and their concrete needs
– Investigate the related fields of the discipline
– Produce a credible project that can then be put to good use on the job market.

Attendance at sessions as required for progress.
Participation, reflection, questioning and production of the materials needed to carry out a reflection and an architectural project.
Final output: graphics, mock-up, presentation to PFE jury

Participation in IPFE
Analysis
Elaboration and formalization of a project through graphic documents, models and a constructed discourse.

This P.F.E. project group has 2 objectives:
Objective 1: Use and applications of digital tools for architectural and urban planning projects. Development of web sharing tools –
Development of innovative approaches in which digital technology contributes to architectural and urban writing.
Objective 2: International exposure and exposure to European urban and architectural culture:
Prior to the PFE project, students will have had international experience during their studies: Cooperation trip, international workshop, long-term mobility, transnational teaching. This PFE enables them to develop a question linked to their mobility or international experience, and to write their P.F.E. on it.

Weekly supervision –
And continuous progress control with required reports as the project evolves.

Choice of Site – Choice of Program – Choice of Subject : Free
The context of the project and the objectives to be achieved must be defined

The choice of a site linked to previous international experience is encouraged if information and communications (Web sharing – Internet, etc.) are favorable

Definition of a program including the evolution of new lifestyles and urban policies is desirable.

Definition of the project organization and composition system (digitization, algorithms, parameterization), -technology transfer_ is recommended.

In line with objectives
Scenarios and scales of representation to be defined.

Teaching team : Justine Lipski / Dominique Beautems

URGENT ADAPTATIONS registration calendar : 

– Visio information meeting on Friday 4th – 1pm (link will be posted on taïga)
– Shuttle cards sent Monday, October 7
– Data sheet presentation meeting Friday 11
– Registration deadline Friday, October 18

NOTE: the completed presentation documents have been posted on the drive

Webex meeting link: Friday, October 4 at 1 p.m.

https://paris-lavillette-archi.webex.com/paris-lavillette-archi-fr/j.php?MTID=m3425907df61ffa076fe659d2ffbbe3a7

Meeting number:
2793 126 9770

Meeting password:
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Joining from a video system or application
Composer 27931269770@paris-lavillette-archi.webex.com
You can also dial 62.109.219.4 and enter your meeting number.

Contact us by phone
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CHALLENGES: PROGRAMMING AS A POLARITY LABORATORY

The future of the architectural heritage of military sites that have been neglected since the implementation of the 2008 defense restructuring plan, is now considered a strategic issue in terms of the urban, economic and environmental impact of making the city on the city with the “already there”.

The recurrence of questions about the transformation of these vast, landlocked sites and the redevelopment of their built heritage, raises profound questions for local authorities about the programs that can be used to reinvent the influence of these sites, sometimes in response to the housing shortage.

It’s a collective effort to create new centers of attraction in these areas of identity.
Urban policies play a key role, as they address the issue of developing new economic and social dynamics to open up these enclaves and create future polarities, combining density and diversity.

These new challenges are leading to participative consultations to think together about new ways of living better together.
The expectations of local residents are numerous: new buildings and renovations that meet environmental requirements, the installation of local services and dynamic activities, the re-qualification of the presence of nature, the introduction of a diversity of uses in public space, the promotion of inter-neighborhood links based on pedestrian practices and public transport services… 

FRAMEWORK / METHODOLOGY

The IPFE workshop in semester 9 begins with a study tour of the site and its many perceptions. The second stage will involve a collective study of the specifications defined by the city following the consultation phases, with a presentation of the guide plan by the Marniquet Aubouin urban planning studio, in charge of the project.
Then, after a collective diagnostic phase, we’ll take an open, critical look at possible changes to the defined framework, and propose transgressive hypotheses.
One of the main expectations will be to involve everyone in a global prospective reflection with a multiscalar approach that will involve the whole group in debates to feed different hypotheses on the site.
This requires collegiality, availability, maturity, ambition and collective organization skills.

In semester 10, the PFE workshop will focus on architectural and urban responses to generic proposals.
The plot of the future neighborhood will be divided into separate, interlocking lots. Each lot will be the subject of a Personal End-of-Study Project to be developed in pairs.
The design process will aim to achieve an expression of the built space at a scale of at least 1/50, enabling the synergy between uses, structural principles and the materiality of the envelope to be addressed. The definition of the landscaping of the public space will be an integral part of the project.
From the public space to the cell, the work will involve thinking about the quality of uses serving the development of new forms of living together. The spatial factory will aim to develop housing and activity typologies integrating operating flexibility or hybridization.

– In semester 9, a visit to the Limoges context is scheduled for November, followed by a presentation by the Marniquet Auboin urban planning studio.
– In semester 10, projects will be developed in pairs.

CONTACTS

dominique.beautems@paris-lavillette.archi.fr
justinelipski@yahoo.fr

IPFE PROCEDURE

physical immersion :
– Visit of the site’s context, in principle on a Saturday so as not to interfere with your lessons
intellectual immersion :
– Take note of surveys, documents and investigations already provided by the city
– Presentation by the Marniquet Auboin urban planning studio, in charge of the project, in principle on a Tuesday at 5 p.m.

PFE SCHEDULE – Thursdays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm except holiday Thursdays which are on Wednesdays

Phase 1 collective – 5 sessions
– analysis and diagnosis of the existing situation and the guide plan
– Themes and issues
– New urban and architectural scale guide plan
– 1/1000 site model and collective feedback brochure
– Graphic design courts and modes of representation
Contributions from outside experts, including landscape architects

Phase 2 individual – 8 sessions
Architectural and landscape development of proposals from 1:500 to 1:50
Layout of the presentation brochure

Phase 3 – 3 sessions
Finalization of the project report – each pair develops an identified part of the project
Preparing for oral presentations

Phase 4 – Juries
PFE defense in the presence of the players
Presentation 8 A0 plates + models from 1/1000 (context) to 1/50 (partial skinning)

Ability to draw by hand is required.

https://www.limoges.fr/citoyenne/marceau-reinvente-reconversion-de-lancienne-caserne

Naval’: Part of this PFE group receives and validates the work of students who have completed their 2nd cycle internship. This course is also the final step in the Master’s cycle of architectural studies, and should enable students to design a ship project, presented as a PFE, demonstrating their ability to think about architecture in its most complex forms.

Mayotte’: Part of this PFE group will be working on the development of the island of Mayotte through housing, public facilities and urban planning projects. The objectives are to show that the architectural project is a multi-disciplinary place where the political act, cultures, science and the arts converge – in short, the whole social ritual.
Among the objectives sought for the M’ayotte’ group, students:
– carry out a multi-criteria diagnosis, as part of a sustainable development approach, at different levels of the territory, the urban fabric, the site and the chosen building. The diagnosis will be technical, social, economic, environmental and sensitive. Particular attention will be paid to historical, landscape and architectural analysis, in relation to economic and social issues.
– will develop projects that take into account social, economic and environmental issues, as well as the expectations of local decision-makers. While taking into account local economic and organizational possibilities, the projects will have to be forward-looking to propose a dynamic of development and uses adapted to the territory.
– must result in a project that is legitimate and quantifiable in terms of the issues at the heart of sustainable development (management of resources, waste, pollution, carbon impact, use of bio-sourced materials, social impact, driving force for development, etc.).)
– will pay particular attention to the subject of water through a cross-disciplinary approach: (as a resource, blue fabric, biodiversity, economic driver, social link…)
– will have to demonstrate a fine bioclimatic analysis, both on the urban scale and on the scale of the building in its site.
– go back and forth between team work and independent individual production
– be placed in a professional situation if the health situation allows: they will be in contact with the various public and private players in the area, who will explain their expectations, issues, problems and resources.

6 hours weekly, 2 hours of classes and 4 hours of individual and group supervision, for 15 sessions, i.e. = 90 hours

Pfe’s workshop is part of the Inventing in the Existing / Inheritance and Mutation program.
“… This field of study is concerned with the history and modes of transformation of the various existing built heritages: recognized, little-known, commonplace or ordinary… It therefore covers both listed or registered monuments and valuable but as yet unidentified heritage, and includes modest heritages (rural, industrial, modernist). It also questions the ecological transformation of the ordinary or self-produced heritage that makes up the city in all its diversity and, in contrast to “urban palimpsests” in which only the site’s land is reused, it bases its urban modifications on the transformation of pre-existing built structures, which must be restored, rehabilitated, reconverted, enhanced, transformed: building with the built or building in the built.”

The Pfe workshop proposes to use an “existing situation” as a starting point for the issues to be developed by each student as part of his or her final project. This “existing situation” brings together themes that we feel should be explored in the Parisian Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture: the future of the Paris suburbs will be examined through the prism of its primary matrix, the living environment.

Weekly session, intermediate jury and public defense.
In June, a pre-jury within the Pfe group will validate or not the work and thus the possibility of defending the PFE.
At the end of the semester, students defend their work before a jury made up of the teachers in charge of the workshop, another teacher from ENSAPLV or another school, and a competent outside personality.

Debates within the workshop throughout the semester will enable students to develop well-argued, committed and even innovative positions for their final projects.

TOOLS
Students are invited to explore and exploit the tools of representation used in the rigorous transformation of an existing building. Priority is given to hand-drawing and large-scale models. The scales of representation allow us to describe an iterative process between urban or even territorial intentions, a situational setting of the building(s) at 1/500 or 1/200 and constructive resolutions at 1/33, 1/20 or even 1/5.

To be set up.

The PFE workshop focuses on medium-sized towns as part of the French government’s Action Cœur de Ville program, which proposes concrete measures to help revitalize town centers and give them an attractive, sustainable image. The themes covered include the requalification of downtown housing and shops, the conversion of emblematic buildings, the requalification of ordinary heritage, as well as the development of public spaces to improve accessibility to the city center for all modes of transport, and the introduction of integrated water management, for example.

The workshop is developed within the framework of an ongoing dialogue with stakeholders in the study area.

After having worked on the towns of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin and Le Creusot, this year we’ll be working, again in partnership with Action Logement, on the town of Belfort in the east of the Bourgogne France Comté region, and more specifically on three blocks in the Jean-Jaurès district proposed by the town, for which it has land control of 6 large plots.
The workshop is co-financed by Action logement. Travel and accommodation costs are covered by our partners and the school.

In this PFE course, the aim is to help students to :

– Based on a reading of a building, a fabric and an urban situation, develop a problematic and a personal reflection on housing in medium-sized towns in contact with actors in the manufacture and governance of the territory;

– Integrate considerations of intervention scales, notions of process and scenario, the “déjà-là”, ecological issues, uses, the residential path of residents, into the development of an architectural and urban project;

– Test hypotheses for new urban forms, reorganization and requalification of a degraded urban fabric, and land division before making typological and programmatic choices;

– Articulate and develop architectural and urban proposals in response to the problems and issues defined by each individual. The work may take into account ideas previously developed during the course of the project.

The aim is to develop an assessment of the issue, a diagnosis, an intervention strategy, hypotheses and a concrete architectural proposal. The work may take into account ideas previously developed during the student’s studies. The PFE should provide an opportunity to explore certain themes or theoretical knowledge in greater depth, to contribute to reflection on current issues, and quite simply, to enjoy oneself.

FOR REGISTRATION CONTACT ANNE PORTNOÏ : anne.portnoi@paris-lavillette.archi.fr
Or come and talk to us in room 204 on Tuesday October 01 at 6 p.m.

The PFE group “Construire dans le construit. Patrimoines et transformations”, supervised by Pietro CREMONINI and Bruno GAUDIN, offers two types of PFE subjects:

1) “Personal” subjects in line with the group’s theme (see “content” below), proposed by students and approved by the teaching staff. Each proposal should unite several students (while leading to mostly individual projects).
2) topics in continuity with those studied in the first semester in the S9 IEHM groups

Participation in weekly group critique and evaluation sessions
Intermediate presentations, progress reports (monthly).
Pre-rendus (in June)

Course language: French.

Development of projects at a sufficiently detailed stage to guarantee control of the proposed landscape and architectural features.
Environment control using 3D simulations and highly detailed models

The aim of the workshop is to examine the capacity of a territory, a site or a building to extend, or even exceed, its existence beyond its initial use.
At a time when our societies are experiencing successive economic and social crises, the notion of “care” will be examined here in the broadest sense and from two angles:
– Taking care of the place, the architecture, the building concerned, primarily from a pragmatic and architectural angle, by studying it, recognizing it, “diagnosing” it
– Taking care of future inhabitants through the choice of program, spatial organization, the nature of the appropriate architectural intervention, etc.

>> Working methods: in groups for on-site workshops / in pairs for projects with identification of individual parts
>> Assessment: continuous assessment (attendance/assiduity) by intermediate jury (display) / PFE jury (with external contributors).