Issue 31 of Études normandes features a special issue focusing on the knowledge and recognition of Reconstruction in Normandy. The issue was conceived in partnership with the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, under the direction of Patrice Gourbin (and funded by the French Ministry of Culture).

The contributions gathered in this double issue extend the research conducted atENSA Normandie post-World War II reconstruction. They come from institutional representatives, experts, and residents, and reflect current trends in historical knowledge and heritage recognition. They also seek to imagine relevant methods for adapting this already ancient architecture to current constraints of comfort and use. Together, the articles form a "research-action" project that observes, participates in, and is committed to the evolution of its subject of study.

A public presentation of the issue is scheduled for Thursday October 24, 2024 at 6pm at the Maison de l'Architecture-Le Forum (48 rue Victor Hugo, 76000 Rouen).

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visual: © Études normandes, 2024 - avenue Maréchal-Leclerc (photo Patrice Gourbin)

Les Presses des Mines, the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, the ATE laboratory, and the Chair of Renewable Natural Resources, Climate, and Architecture have published the book Resources for Ecological Architecture. Volume 2, Climate and Environments. This collective work is the result of the seminar "Climate , Environmental Resources in Architecture,"held in February 2023 atENSA Normandie.
The book is edited by Noura Arab and François Fleury, professors and researchers at the ATE laboratory.

Summary of the book
Since its beginnings, architecture has always been influenced by the climate, settling where it offered a favorable environment. But the climate is not only a resource for architecture, it is one of its raison d'être that has long shaped many of its characteristics. However, industrialization has not only standardized materials and construction methods, but also architectural forms and comfort, ignoring local climatic peculiarities. Fossil fuel consumption has been greatly increased, thus contributing to the global warming to which architecture must adapt today. Air conditioning is becoming more widespread, still consumes energy and contributes to increasing the urban heat island. How can we get out of this vicious circle?
It is time to rethink architecture as an interface between climate and atmosphere, by asking crucial questions in the face of the increasingly perceptible effects of climate change. This second volume on ecological architecture explores the consequences of the paradigm shift in considering the climate as a resource to be valued and no longer as a hazard from which we must protect ourselves.
It is crucial to put the climate context back at the heart of architectural design and encourage approaches that go beyond standardised environmental standards to ensure a sustainable and environmentally friendly lifestyle.

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visual: cover of Ressources pour l'architecture écologique. Tome 2, Climat et ambiances, Presses des Mines, 2024

Le Moniteur publishes the book Thatch Roofing and Facades: From Resource to Implementation. This publication is based on the doctoral thesis defended by Carole Lemans, associate lecturer atENSA Normandie associate researcher at the ATE laboratory.

Summary of the book

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To order the book on the Editions Le Moniteur website: https://boutique.lemoniteur.fr/author/carole-lemans.html

visual: cover of Couverture et façade de chaume, published by Le Moniteur, 2024

The Society of Antiquaries of Normandy and the ATE laboratory have published the book La reconstruction du bâti agricole dans le Calvados après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. This publication is the result of original research conducted by Patrice Gourbin, lecturer and researcher at the ATE laboratory.

The publication of the book was made possible by the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, the department of Calvados and the ATE laboratory.

Summary of the book

Visual: Cover of the book The reconstruction of agricultural buildings in Calvados after the Second World War, Society of Antiquaries of Normandy, 2024

The Fanzine "Labyrinthe" is an editorial project initiated by a collective of doctoral students fromENSA Normandie ATE, straddling several statuses—student, researcher, professional, teacher, architect... — with the aim of sharing and promoting an exploratory approach, a transitional, liminal position on the fringes of architectural practice.

The project is part of this dynamic of research and critical positioning, based on the figure of the labyrinth, long the symbol of a path of initiation, but perhaps also and above all, that of a space where one learns to orient oneself, where one discovers the other, where one confronts trouble and the complex.

What if we were to see this space-time as permanent rather than transitory?

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Contents of #0 - January 2024: editorial / the doctoral student's walk / praise for the journey / I'm talking about a place / surface 2: alternative model for politics on earth / fighting / story of a local struggle: sticks in the road / Atelier Bow-Wow's love of bad architecture

With contributions from ATE doctoral students: Antoine Apruzzese, Alexis Desplats, Miléna Koutani, Léna Tullifer

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Les Presses des Mines, the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, the ATE laboratory, and the Chair of Renewable Natural Resources, Climate, and Architecture have published the book Resources for Ecological Architecture. Volume 1, Building Materials. This collective work is the result of the seminar "Materials, Construction Resources in Architecture, " held in June 2022 atENSA Normandie.
The book is edited by Noura Arab and François Fleury, professors and researchers at the ATE laboratory.

Book summary
Today, building materials can no longer be considered as commodities, whose exploitation would be limited only by economic profitability.
This book, the first of a three-volume series, addresses the challenges of integrating low environmental impact materials (biosourced, geosourced and reused) into the world of architecture, and introduces a new relationship with these resources, part of a two-way relationship with our environment. This approach is profoundly altering design processes and prompting us to rethink our research methods.
Scientific contributions, pedagogical feedback, examples of experimentation and controversy are mutually enriching in this book, which sets out the current dynamics of the question of resources in architecture. The multidisciplinarity and variety of points of view reveal the complexity of the problems, provide knowledge and solutions, and open up methodological and creative perspectives in teaching, research and practice on the issue of ecological materials for construction.

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visual: cover of Ressources pour l'architecture écologique. Tome 1, building materials, Presses des Mines, 2023

The book Chantiers de ville: exchanges, participation and urban hybridizationedited by Dominique Lefrançois (teacher-researcher at ATE), with the collaboration of Cécile Barbier and Nadya Rouizem (associate member of AHTTEP/AUSser) has been published by Editions Recherches.

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Inhabitant participation is nowadays carried on the banner of a more just and plural city. But it is constantly criticized, both by residents who desert participation bodies, and by urban professionals and researchers. So how can we change or improve the situation? Can we give participation the political dimension it lacks? Can we ensure that everyone is truly involved, including those who may or may not have deliberately set themselves apart from the norm? How can we also imagine a city that the ecological imperative invites us to look and think differently?
At a time when debate requires bringing together people who are strangers to each other, when neighborly relations need to be thought through not only between people but also with animals, when the boundaries between public and private, or between the city and nature, need to be reconsidered, we wanted to bring together the words of people from different backgrounds and professions: architects, urban planners, landscape architects, ethnologists, philosophers, designers, entomologists, film producers...
The book is conceived as a melting pot of experiences and stories in various forms, from discussed to more impromptu analyses. Conceived as a forum, it is nourished by the idea that the intersection of points of view can give rise to other perspectives for building a city made up of exchanges and urban hybridizations, forced to rebuild on itself, in essence a permanent work in progress.

Chantiers de ville includes contributions by Cécile Barbier, Nadya Rouizem, Nele Aernouts, Antoine Apruzzese (doctoral student at ATE), Patrick Bouchain, Anne-Laure Chambaz, Thomas Decreus, Goliath Dyèvre, Lucie Faure, Romain Gallart, Patrick Godeau, Nicolas Guillon, Pascale Joffroy, Clotilde Joly, Stéphane Juguet, Claire Lemarchand, Houcine Messous, Francis Navarre, Mélusine Pagnier, Thierry Paquot, Coriandre Prudhomme, Mina Saidi Sharouz, Eddie Soulier, Juliette Spire.

The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the participation of the ATE laboratory, the AHTTEP-UMR AUSSER CNRS laboratory, the French Ministry of Culture and the ANR.

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visual: cover of the book Chantiers de ville. Échanges, participation et hybridisation urbaines, éditions recherches, 2023

In December 2022, the magazine Études normandes published a special issue to present the collective reflections resulting from an experimental pedagogical and research partnership involving the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, the UniLaSalle Polytechnic Institute (Rouen campus) and several actors in the Normandy region.

This analysis presents the results of a "Workshop outside the walls", a five-day immersion with S-07 students from both schools in the new commune of Rives-en-Seine (Seine-Maritime), which is participating in the national program "Small Cities of Tomorrow".
The work was supervised by the teacher-researchers of the M1 DE Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires urban and territorial project workshop: Gabriella TROTTA-BRAMBILLA (head), Joseph ALTUNA, Antoine APRUZZESE, Marie CHABROL, Patrice GOURBIN and Dominique LEFRANÇOIS.

The publication was coordinated by Gabriella TROTTA-BRAMBILLA forENSA Normandie features contributions from teachers, researchers, and local stakeholders (Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park, Seine-Maritime Departmental Directorate for Territories and the Sea, local elected officials, etc.).

You can download the special issue on theÉtudes Normandes websiteby clicking HERE

visual: ©Étudesnormandes, 2022 - view of downtown Caudebec-en-Caux. coll. PNR BSN / JF Drone N'Caux

On Thursday, March 25, 2021, the third conference of Doctoral School 556 HSRT (Human Societies Risks Territory) was held atENSA Normandie. Co-organized by doctoral students from ED 556, these meetings offer young researchers in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to showcase their work.

On this occasion, communications from various disciplines met around the notion of "HABITATE" which, as Caroline Maniaque reminds us in the preface of this brochure, "from philosophy to geography, from anthropology to architecture, passing through urbanism or history, crosses the social and human sciences and meets some of the major debates of our contemporary life".

The proceedings of this JED, coordinated by doctoral students, bring together 14 contributions. The brochure highlights the contribution ofENSA Normandie the ATE laboratory to postgraduate education.