Videoconference - "Acts and Materials - Resources for Architecture

Act I: The stone

The meeting with Mr. Pépin focuses on the act of transforming matter into a building material and its links with extraction and implementation. In the age of digital cutting, we question the capacity of stone to carry a sensitive dimension of architecture. This is a presentation of the sector, introducing an explanation of the processes and systems of actors from the genesis of the manufacturing process to the architectural design.

Interviews conceived and animated by the aecc students of ENSA Normandie, supported by the chair "Renewable natural resources, climate & architecture" Ecosystems, climates and bio-/geo-resources as vectors of architectural and constructive transformations and innovations.
The Architecture, Environment and Constructive Culture field of study and its students are initiating a series of talks on the acts and gestures that extract, transform and implement matter so that it becomes an architectural material from the very beginning of the project.
A meeting between ecology and contemporary know-how, it is a question of investigating the local resources of Normandy.

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