Laboratories CRATerre-ENSAG constructive
cultures and have decided to bring their research capabilities to
establish a new research unit called the "Architecture, Constructive
Cultures & Environment", or AE & CC.
This approximation is motivated and driven by the ability of two
laboratories to define together a new science that contributes to a
prospective trends of research for new research on three major
backbones: Habitat, Materials, and Heritage.
This scientific project aims to better
position the new unit on:
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Research on architectural and urban challenges of the 21st century;
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The creation of an architectural education polytechnic on the issue of
sustainable construction;
- The development of an ambitious "City of
sustainable construction."
This proposal is also justified by the history
of research at the National School of Architecture of Grenoble, and of
these two entities, the past 30 years:
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A shared path around the issue of "constructive culture" that has
contributed to the development of the Grands Ateliers de l'Isle d'Abeau,
from a collective thinking of teachers and researchers in these two
research teams and Education
the construction gives a central place to the heuristic of "constructive
experimentation."
The two laboratories involved in the project
Great Workshops from its origin;
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A joint position, gradually consolidated, based on three main issues the
main research areas investigated by the laboratory CRATerre-ENSAG
constructive cultures in which the laboratory adheres:
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how to value cultural diversity?
o
how to better manage natural resources?
o
how to contribute to the fight against poverty?
- The creation of a teaching team combining
these two research units of the Master "Architecture & constructive
cultures" of ENSAG when was implemented educational reform in LMD;
- A commitment to shared scientific and educational on the issue of
local development areas by mobilizing the potential of local resources:
materials and techniques, knowledge and know-how of constructive
cultures situated (traditional and current) for the housing project
economic and environmentally responsible ;
- The joint effort that has been developed to implement the device to
the doctoral ENSAG, in association with the LIG and UJF, Grenoble, this
effort was supported by obtaining three HDR 2 which allowed
integration of the two laboratories at the
Doctoral School No. 454, "Humanities, the Policy and Planning", and
consolidated supervision of research thesis on cross-cutting issues,
These two professors Anne Coste, and Philippe Hubert Guillaud Potié.
Philippe Potié has since joined the Ecole
Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Versailles, and founded a new
research team.
shared or complementary, especially on issues
of local sustainable development of territories, and eco-habitat,
whether in developed regions (north) and developing (south);
3.2.
Bring together research on the constructive
cultures ENSAG
The term "constructive culture" refers to a specific area of
investigation.
It is well built, but construction considerations enriched "soft"
questions from anthropological, historical, social ...
The idea is that the technical phenomenon (a wall, a frame ...) can not
be reduced to its description or its model, and its constitution
incorporates the human factor in all its complexity.
The wall framing are artifacts, and probably thought, and as such they
reflect the subtlety of human creations which they are traced.
Human societies in their diversity, build, build, and works that result
tell us about their organization, their know-how, their imagination.
Also, the "constructive culture" include a category of research that is
relevant to the description of technical devices connected to the
building highlighting the human provisions governing the implementation
of materials and construction techniques.
Provisions by human means a complex layering
of skills, performances, resource management, work organization,
economics.
This sensitivity "open" has gradually manifested in the schools of
architecture there is a little over fifteen years.
Closely related to pedagogy, this meant to upgrade the "architecture",
crossing doubts, the unit discussed in class, extending its domain to
urban issues, heritage, landscape and environmental soon, a questioning
of its identity
material.
What defines or specifies that constructive?
What is built in a context of economic poverty or underdevelopment?
Concrete and steel are the only ones using the developed economies?
How much the entrepreneurial component has it
in the way of building?
Such questions have led the thinking and soon the search for architects
engaged in a real debate on the foundations of their art.
Thus were born a number of research teams in France and Europe (Italy,
Spain, Great Britain, Germany) which have matured their problems and
worked as a network.
Les Grands Ateliers de l'Isle d'Abeau are a result of these exchanges.
A significant number of publications on the history of construction or
materials on the vernacular building tradition, and the use of technical
building systems such as earth construction have emerged since the 80
.
Also new research units were created, and enjoying the important reforms
undertaken in the architectural education in France.
In this bundle of research and experiments, comparisons were natural
products, particularly within the School of Architecture of Grenoble.
Thus, the laboratory "CRATerre", created by Patrice Doat, Hugo Houben
and Hubert Guillaud, from birth engaged in research on the material
world, and the former laboratory "site-design" created by Sergio Ferro,
become "constructive cultures
"(under the direction of Philippe Potié), taking advantage of new
constraints defined AERES to operate an institutional rapprochement,
while intellectual affinities have long existed between the two
entities.
The growing attention to environmental issues, which by definition
requires a multi disciplinary opening, also justifies this
approximation.
(Re) understanding of traditional materials such as earth, straw,
bamboo, the detailed study of production chains of conventional
materials such as cement, steel, wood ..., the research on the history
of
heritages still little known of these materials, and perhaps especially
the integration of these studies and research in the field of housing,
both source and outlet for their purpose, are the lives of two teams,
both in the
lab in the library or on the ground.
Three axes orient when the subject of our future research.
Habitat, Material Heritage.
Habitat because it is inconceivable, in light of "constructive cultures"
reflect on the materials and techniques that are not "located", that is
to say, applied to the substrate material of living together,
and involved in the specific terms still live.
Material, because there is still much to do and try to provide a better
understanding of emerging alternative materials as well as those
traditionally widespread.
Heritage finally, as an immense reservoir is to describe or to discover
and preserve about the techniques and skills associated with that
industrial production dominant left in the shadows.
Each of these axes, variably fed by programs and projects are well
underway, some of which are crossed by the same concern for knowledge
available and shared.
For this reason, the size of the valuation is particularly worked.
Whether at the level of education, publishing, testing (Ateliers),
animation scientific community (conferences) or public events
(conferences, exhibitions).
