"Recompositions rurales" by Félix Mulle
Félix Mulle is the founder of Atelier de l'Ourcq, an agency active in the fields of urban planning, architecture and landscape. Over the past ten years, he has been developing strategies for the urban blossoming of small town centers, based on the strong, methodical involvement of local players, through a wide range of activities, from upstream territorial studies to detailed implementation of buildings and public spaces.
His aim is to define the characteristics of a specifically rural and peri-urban spatial vocabulary adapted to the ecological and social challenges of our time. His work has been recognized by the Palmarès des jeunes urbanistes 2016,the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes 2016 and the Prix de la première œuvre de l'équerre d'argent 2020 for 6 participatory housing units in Romainville (93).
Workshop - Rural recompositions
"The origin of architecture lies neither in the hut nor in the cave, nor in the mythical "house of Adam in paradise": before transforming the support into a column, the roof into a tympanum, before laying stone on stone, man laid stone on the earth to mark a place in the unknown universe - to measure and modify it." Vittorio Gregotti, Le territoire de l'architecture, Preface, éditions de l'Équerre, 1982 (1966 original ed.)
The aim of the workshop will be to represent as faithfully as possible the future state of a rural area in the Normandy region by 2050. At the crossroads of planning, engineering and aesthetics, the aim will be to methodically construct the most realistic images possible of future landscapes, and to "translate" them into architectural form.
This "landscape-based" approach to the regional project is neither utopian nor dystopian. It will seek to develop as objective an approach as possible, based on current scientific knowledge, and considering the notion of "transition" in all its forms: ecological, energetic, agricultural and so on. In so doing, it will highlight both the difficulties and the resources of the rural world, and promote the symbolic appropriation of the transition narrative in these territories.
"Studio for a displaced writer on the site of the Pavillon Flaubert in Canteleu" by Lia Kiladis
Lia Kiladis studied architecture at Yale and MIT, and has worked for various agencies in New York, Athens and Paris. She moved to Europe in 1997, initially working for Alvaro Siza in Porto. After graduating from ENSA-PB in 2003, she opened her own agency the same year. Her work alternates between institutional and residential projects, new construction and renovation, for an international clientele. In these changing cultures, her design strategies remain constant: simplicity of form and detail, fluidity of space, subtlety in the choice of materials.
Atelier - Studio for a displaced writer on the site of the Pavillon Flaubert in Canteleu
The aim of the design studio is to develop design strategies to create "a room of one's own," using the medium of reading/ writing/ storytelling as the starting off point. More specifically, the studio strives to develop a sensitivity to designing for specific people who are not rooted in any one place, but are rather transcultural, uprooted either by force or by choice. Their ungrounding is the inspiration for their work. The task at hand is to ground them, if only for a while.
The client for the project is a displaced writer, voluntarily or involuntarily on the move and unfamiliar with the Normandy region. The project consists of a writer's studio on the grounds of the Pavillon Flaubert, situated along an industrial stretch of the Seine in the Croisset neighborhood of Canteleu, an otherwise verdant western suburb of Rouen.
This is deliberately a small-scale architectural project encompassing the design of the interior as well as the development of construction sections and large-scale models, adhering to a belief in the precision of construction to express intentions in architecture. That the starting point comes from a non-visual medium - writing - is intentional. Students are asked to be both precise and to roam freely within their imaginations to develop the design. Akin to a writer constructing a text, students are to dig into the details of how things go together, piece by piece, to create a whole.
"Cooking and Making - A Comparative Methodology of Design" by Andy Yu
I'm an architect and educator. As Projects Director at Sou Fujimoto Atelier Paris, I lead design direction for international projects, give lectures, liaise with clients, and drive business development. I earned my Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne in 2009 and have worked across Asia, Australia, and Europe. My experience as a ramen chef blends my passion for food with architecture and teaching, enriching my approach to both disciplines.
Workshop - "Cooking and Making - A Comparative Methodology of Design
Studio Pedagogy - There are 2 components to delivering the studio. First the development of knowledge through research and dialectics. Second is the application of this knowledge in a manner of a professional context, in the form of a studio project where architctural spaces are created.
Part I: Knowledge and Research
We will use different mediums to explore, discover and discuss different knowledge.
1. Film Review : We will take advantage of being in a studio environment - for immediate immersion and reflection of the studio theme - watch and discuss films together from the multiple points of view. 2 films will be shown.
2. Reader : A digital reader will be provided. The reader will contain two sections to assist in the following ways
3. Lectures / Discussions : To introduce and expand the theme of the studio. The emphasis will be to frame the relationships between architecture and other fields, that qualities of architecture can be sharpened and enforced from other fields of thoughts, particularly one outside of architectural discourses.
4. Guest Workshop and Guest Lecturer: Practioners who are working in simikar fashions or famaliar with the ethos of the studios will be invited for lectures or activities.
5. Gastronomical experience Visit : Simple eating experiences that involve the entire studio will take place, like visits to a restaurant, meetings with food associations.
Part II: Studio Projects
The outcome will aim to strengthen the craft of making, the resulting space will be presented as a scaled model. There will be two parts to the assignment, the first being short introduction to the method of working, while the second being the core assignment in the traditional sense of a studio.
"En souvenirs d'Étretat:
alteration - altérité or how alteration becomes an element of alterity for architecture" by Marlène Leroux
Marlène Leroux is a founding partner, with Francis Jacquier, of the architecture and urban planning firm Atelier Archiplein. Founded in Shanghai in 2008, and based in Geneva since 2011 , Atelier Archiplein already has a solid reputation for building with natural materials, particularly solid stone and wood, as well as urban renovation and heritage interventions. Alongside her practical work, Marlène Leroux is scientific coordinator of the MAS Urbanisme EPFL-UNIGE.
En souvenirs d'Étretat / alteration - otherness or how alteration becomes an element of otherness for architecture.
The cliffs of Normandy's coastline are a symbol of our collective territorial identity. They bear witness to an intangible geological time, the result of centuries of natural erosion through geological and climatic hazards, as well as the wear and tear of water's ceaseless passage. The aim is to initiate a reflection on the process of transformation of matter (form, appearance, resistance), i.e. how the processes of alteration reveal architecture or are revealed by it. In other words, we're looking at how architecture acts or reacts to erosion and the traces of time (water in particular). The cliffs will be the main protagonist, their past and future alterations the narrative thread, while the design of a memorial will be the main action.