A THEME: HABITAT
Housing accounts for the majority of urban material.
This is why it is a decisive factor in the construction of tomorrow’s cities.
The laboratory explores the habitat as the starting point for an intimately collective and supportive life, and explores territories from their domestic dimension.
THE HABITAT OF TOMORROW
Working on habitat means finding ways to make tomorrow’s world more socially and spatially just, while conserving resources and building ecological human relationships. Changing housing means changing both the city and housing, and the laboratory explores this process.
SPACES AND USES
The laboratory sees housing as the meeting point of social dimensions – linked to lifestyles and uses – and dimensions strictly linked to the architectural discipline – linked to plan composition, and to spatial, constructive and material qualities.
INTIMATE TERRITORIES
The laboratory situates habitat in a broader spectrum than that of housing.
Rather, habitat is seen as a space and its uses stretched between small and large scale: between furniture and territory, domestic and urban scale, body and city, the short time of daily gestures and the long time of successive lives.
The home is also the place where ordinary and extraordinary moments, functional and poetic aspects, habits and surprises intermingle.
It is at once rational and poetic, concrete and abstract, immanent and ontological, founded on our ability to project ourselves – to dream of tomorrow – and to be grounded by our memory – our past history.
In short, habitat above all establishes relationships, articulations, and puts opposites into perspective, notions that are a priori contradictory or usually dissociated.
Habitat is a place of connection.