Pierre, Feuille, Ciseaux

Fleurance (FR) - Runner-up

TEAM DATA

Associates: Nathanaël Pinard (FR), Felix Roudier-Canler (FR), Pierre-Antoine Pernot (FR), Marc Viaud (FR), Victor Dussap (FR) – architects
Contributor: Cloee-Stella Olivetti (FR) – architect

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INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issue of your project in relation with the theme “Living Cities Imagining architecture taking care of the milieus”? And in which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution?
We looked at the rehabilitation of the Gersycoop cooperative as an opportunity to restore Fleurance's visibility in its landscape, suturing Gers River riparian corridor and reinforcing the craftsmanship know-how by reintroducing local resources and reuse practices. We also suggested social interactions, which serve the ecosystems, inhabitants and the living, and connect to bioclimatic issues.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
Our site peculiarity was the interaction between Fleurance and the "villages perchés” around the city. Our design has a cultural side: it unites the Fleurantins and the villages artisans. It also acts physically on the site project and the riverbanks: we rebuild biotic corridors, enhance biocenosis, soil permeabilization, biotope coefficient–all with local materials for low cost and carbon impact.

PROJECT:

Bioclimatic architecture, Rue des générations, dwellings

Local resources and urban mine, involve local craftmen

Unite Fleurantins within an enhanced biotope

3. Have you treated these issues previously? What were the reference projects that inspired yours?
Yes, in fact, we combined reuse processes, new economy dynamics and Gaudi’s sustainability, functionality and aesthetics principles, which we researched intensively for two earlier projects: “The Cure: Anatomy and regeneration of a critical metabolism”, in Limoges (Runners Up at Europan 16), and “Opus Loci”, our 1st prize winner project at the “Gaudi La Coma Artists’ Residences” competition.

SITE:

Emergences into the landscape, symbolic role of the silos

Local resources for a low carbon impact and circular economy

Deconstruct to reveal, reuse and manage densities

4. How can your project be implemented together with the actors through a negotiated process and in time. How did you consider this issue in your project?
We really wanted to make something that one can build. Several choices we made have no other purpose: we leverage local craftmanship, break the operations down into smaller projects, compatible with the local business capacity… money is invested, really, into the three assets that make it work: people and living things, economic support for businesses, and the development of virtuous industries.

REFERENCES:

“Le Costil”, Individual housing refurbishment © Anatomie d’architecture, Olivier Sabatier

“Matière grise”, Exhibition about resources and construction © Encore heureux, Bonnefrite, Camping Design, Pavillon de l’Arsenal

Cooperative Rotor, Reuse processes © Rotor

5. How did you form the team for the competition and if so what are the skills you associated?
This team is a collaboration between Paf Architecture, founded in Clermont-Ferrand in 2022, and Collectif Carré Noir, founded in Paris in 2018. We were all classmates from the Clermont-Ferrand architectural school. We became experts of various fields: refurbishment, urban design.… but we all kept these common ground values of sociological and ecological involvement in the architectural practice.

6. How could this prize help you in your professional career?
The Europan network brings visibility, and is an outstanding asset to get in touch with inspiring professionals all around the continent. Undeniably, the perspective of going further with our proposal in Fleurance matters, as it would be a very qualitative achievement for us. We are thrilled to think that it could also be a rare opportunity to experiment new processes of participatory governance.

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Has your team, together or separately, already conceived or implemented some projects and/or won any competition? if so, which ones?
Collectif Carré Noir has been involved in several award-winning projects in the following competitions:
Innovative Mention for Reuse Italy competition “Reuse the Fallen Church” – associated with Romanian architect Dana Roxana Hosu,
Runners Up Europan 16 in Limoges with “The Cure: Anatomy and regeneration of a critical metabolism”,
First prize with the “Opus Loci” project, for the competition Gaudi La Coma Artists’ Residences, organised by the Gaudi Knowledge Foundation.

Marc Viaud and Victor Dussap, associated with Dana Roxana Hosu, have been awarded with a third prize for the Arkxsite competition “Site Temple”.
Victor and Roxana also won the third prize for the Romanian pavilion of the Dubaï 2020 Universal Exhibition.

Individually, Félix Roudier-Canler has been first prize winner for the “72h Axo Battle” and for the “Waterless World” competitions organised by Non-Architecture and received a Special Mention for “Working from Home” competition. He also participated to the “Et demain on fait quoi ?” exhibition organised into the Pavillon de l’Arsenal. These two last successes have been achieved with French architect Chloé Bordjah.
Individually, Marc Viaud received an Honourable Mention for the competition “Trans Siberian Pit Stops”. He has been first prize for the “ConstruirAcier” competition and he obtained the French prize for the XXIe edition of Iacobus competition.

Paf architecture has been finalist for the Terra Viva competition “Rural Housing” with their proposal “The Mondina’s reflect”.

The association formed by Collectif Carré Noir and Paf architecture also won a Special Mention in this very Europan 17 edition, on the Spanish site of Torrelavega.

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