This collaboration mainly concerned exchanges of skills and know-how, but also various co-constructions and collaborations. Thus, after the School of Architecture of San Sebastian and the Architectural Association of London, the National School of Architecture of Normandy was honoured to be invited by the Spanish festival to create an installation in the public space of Logroño from 26 April to 1 May 2019. 6 students and 2 professors collaborated on this project and were able to present it in situ, in the heart of one of the world's most renowned ephemeral architecture festivals.

The Rouen Normandy Metropolis is therefore proud to have supported this project and thus to have promoted the knowledge and creativity of its school of architecture on an international scale.

(Extract from the preface, by Hugo DERMIEN, Deputy Director of Communication, Rouen Normandy Metropolis)

A new concept

At the invitation of their teachers, the students of the workshop this year looked at the issue of city floors in three cities of Guadeloupe. In Le Moule, Morne-à-l'Eau and Pointe-à-Pitre, they analysed, drew and measured the ground floor of the city. By extending their gaze beyond the simple notion of ground floor, they have apprehended a new and essential dimension of the city.

Remi Ferrand
Engineer and architect – Senior Lecturer atENSA Normandie

Booklet available on request

This work, part of the "Trans-Form" field of study, aims to design a renovation project for theENSA Normandie Park WorkshopsENSA Normandie by P. Mottini in 1995. In order to develop coherent and solid projects, the DE Trans-Form students carried out a collective survey of the building.

French and Vietnamese students have the opportunity to take L1, L2, or L3 courses in Hanoi and have the ECTS credits earned in Vietnam recognized in the French architecture degree program. This is a collaboration between the French National Schools of Architecture (ENSA Normandie, ENSAP Bordeaux, and ENSA Toulouse) and the Hanoi University of Architecture (HAU). Today, this collaboration has led to institutional recognition by both countries of a delocalized Bachelor's degree in Architecture offered byENSA Normandie.

This pedagogical partnership bears witness to the connivance built up over the last ten years between our Eastern and Western cultures on architecture in its encounter with its context.

If Le Moule were told to us, and if the different sequences that punctuate its crossing, from East to West while travelling from Pointe-à-Pitre, were told successively, here is more or less the little story that would result.

Remi Ferrand
Engineer and architect – Senior Lecturer atENSA Normandie

A multi-site study

During these two academic semesters, the Master Parcours DRAQ inaugurated a new formula by choosing several study sites in the Le Havre and Rouen urban areas. Coming from different periods ranging from the 18th century (for the museum ex-palace of justice), to the beginning of the 20th century (for the Jean Macé school), to the second part of the 20th century (for the BCMO, the university library of Mont-Saint-Aignan or the Reservoir tower of Caucriauville), these buildings present a typological, chronological, spatial and constructive diversity, the critical analysis and understanding of which have formed the basis of their reconversion...

Ludovic Charamon
Architect, lecturer atENSA Normandie

Sichuan University and its Department of Architecture and Environment welcomed 10 students fromENSA Normandie an International Immersion Workshop, which took place from June 29 to July 14, 2019. This document summarizes the workshop and recounts the different phases of the work.

The teaching of the "Architecture, Theories and Project Methodologies" field of study comprises 3 parts:

- A course on the logics of production of architectural space and related methodologies,
- A tutorial on the analysis of the literary capacity of architects to make a narrative out of their architectural practice,
- A project studio focusing on the large scale of the building, its topological organisation and the specific space
A project studio on the large scale of the building, its topological organisation and the specific space that distributes its programmatic complexity, known as the "Urban Interior Space".

This triptych is intended to help the student understand :

- That the public space that is formed around architecture has urban as well as functional responsibilities,
- That the architect's narrative aims to describe the respective shares of these responsibilities in his art and/or his work,
- That the intentions of such a narrative are concretised in a topological organisation that precedes the very idea of function.

For the second consecutive year, students atENSA Normandie the exceptional opportunity to spend a semester working on a project on the island of Guadeloupe.

A two-week trip to the site allowed them to take a step back, which was very beneficial from an educational standpoint, and to question or challenge certain preconceived ideas or automatic project responses. This experience was once again made possible by the joint efforts of a municipality, the town of Le Moule, and two administrations, the DAC of Guadeloupe andENSA Normandie various contributors deserve our thanks here.

For the team of students enrolled in the master's program, specifically in their seventh and ninth semesters atENSA Normandie, the urbanized area of Le Moule is a subject of study that lends itself to questioning and the acquisition of methodological mechanisms specific to urban projects.