Amélie Allioux, architecte, Atelier Fil,
Pierre-Yves Legrand, directeur de NOVABUILD
Intervention by Amélie Allioux, architect, Atelier Fil
Conference organised by NOVABUILD , moderated by Pierre-Yves Legrand, Director of NOVABUILD
Building is an act of collective and political choice. At every stage of the project, the decision to use a material has a conscious and critical impact on the existence of the sector concerned, and on the resources deployed in terms of time, skills, players, etc. Let's explore these choices together, based on the experience of the architectural practice Atelier Fil and other architects, who are working on research and action on the impacts and tools of the act of building with a view to honest frugality.
Amélie ALLIOUX is an architect who contributes to the development of alternative strategies in urban planning and architecture, in particular through citizen participation in urban and architectural projects and ‘reuse’ architecture.
Her awareness of changes in society has led her to experiment with new ways of producing architectural and urban projects, to get involved in research programmes and to propose a new role for architects, in dialogue with other players in the construction industry.
Fil is a double structure created in 2013 in Nantes, by bringing together the varied profiles of professionals involved in the design and creation of ‘inhabited environments’. Architects, engineers, urban planners, researchers and mediators come together to develop innovative processes for transforming territories. Committed to feedback from the field as a basis for analysis and design, Collectif Fil and Atelier Fil use action research to test and validate their hypotheses and theoretical and technical tools ‘in situ’.
Their values? Frugality, Iteration and Sharing. Iteration, or how to transform the project step by step by integrating and completing the project phases. Frugality, or how to be ingenious and modest in the response adopted, relying on what is already there and on techniques with low environmental impact. And finally, sharing, or how to involve all the players in the project, even those who are outside the scope of consultation, by creating new roles and tools.
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