Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Instruct a question on architecture and urban planning
• Develop teamwork
• Consolidate their architectural and urban culture with a research approach
• Finalise architecture and urban planning projects adapted to a context
• Develop an identified spatial response
• Develop an architectural or urbanistic approach
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity in constantly evolving situations
• Interact with all actors
• Adopt a professional attitude
• Integrate and work in a team
• Integrate actors' different expectations related to architecture, urban planning and spatial planning
• Make choices
• Demonstrate reflexivity, openness and initiative
• Demonstrate ethical values
• Demonstrate independence of thought and action.

Learning Outcomes of UE

To approach the social mixing, the diversities on dwellings, the functional, typological and programmatic mixing, by adapting the architectural and urban design to the ambitions and the environmental stakes.

To produce more attractive and less consuming land-saving spaces based on the hypothesis that the more a place can ensure uses, activities and functions corresponding to the realities of the contexts, the greater is its capacity to be adapted.
To be able to take into account the risk of monofunctionality, reversibility and flexibility of a masterplan and to anticipate its evolutions in long term.

The architecture explores the potential of hybridisation as an integral part of the territory, thus students will be able to question the capacity to adapt rather than to deposit an ‘object' architecture, a product resulting from a commission or a regulation.
Exercising the perspective to scan the territory, filtering the increasing number of variables of the context, representing the adaptation is the first source of inspiration.

To be able to design and specify the functions of a public amenity integrated into the housing project to be studied individually in the context of a master plan and an analysis of the territory in groups of MA1 and MA2 students.
 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Climate change and social inequalities are major global challenges that require a reactive approach; this context constitutes a powerful lever for innovative architectural composition. The studio takes a close look at the changes that our societies are currently undergoing and questions the capacity to adapt regardless of the type of risks, chronic stresses or crises of any kind that they suffer. The objective of the field is to make the concept of resilience operational in a context of awareness for a profound transformation.
The resilient approach is not a fashionable effect, it seems to us to be essential to anticipate and propose a vision of adaptation in the face of the many challenges of the 21st century, such as the progressive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or the limitation of global warming to 2°C.

The lack of anticipation that we are experiencing and the lack of action on the part of the actors will lead to the need for integrating the concept of adaptation.

The adaptation capacities, first of all, allow a strong attachment to contextuality. A good project is first and foremost a good question and resilient devices question both physical and user situations (understand, decode and represent a situation).
The adaptive management then calls for the analysis of the many unknown factors to come and the ability to foresee risks, stresses, shocks and disruptive environmental and social events. This attitude makes it possible to be aware that each human activity has an impact on the territory, the environment and therefore on the living world. The projects are enriched by a reflection on the relationship between the city and nature, the environment and the life cycles.

Finally, these risks and constraints offer new opportunities, new resources, a field of possibilities for the design process that is no longer static with fixed solutions but evolving.

The students' proposals, as open as possible, are all responses to the challenges of the transition, and allow us to progress towards the resilient city.

Within the Resilience studio, the search for new ways of living is similar to a field of experimentation, a laboratory of architectural production for cities and territories; an urban design, where the architectural composition finds its place. The studio, as a laboratory, questions the relationship between individuals and functions in the territory and brings together the diversity of architectures proposed by the M1 and M2 students. All the ideas are linked and reinforced even if they turn out to be contradictory or conflicting.
 

Prior Experience

Ability to analyse and synthesise sociological and urbanistic data as well as information on the built typology linked to the site.