Comment prendre soin
des milieux habités ?

"In today’s world of rampant artificialisation of spaces,
the appropriate relationship between nature and the artifact has become crucial..."

Excerpt from the Europan 17 catalogue of results, read the article from:

. Chris Younès (FR) – anthro-philosopher, teacher at ESA Paris, member of the Gerphau research laboratory, www.gerphau.archi.fr
. Didier Rebois (FR) – architect, General Secretary of Europan, www.europan-europe.eu

The challenge is to use the potential of the wild nature as a resource and as a living milieu. In some winning projects of the Europan 17 competition, we can see 4 matrices
of thought and action about the way to take care of the inhabited milieus which are particularly significant in the new natural-cultural projectual representations:
Welcoming, which is inclusive and welcoming to others, human and non-human, in their conditions of life possibility, Vs. inhospitality and exclusion;
Holding, which supports through a weaving of natural-cultural interdependencies and reciprocities, Vs. the unbearable;
Repairing, which constantly repairs and nurtures, Vs. exhaustion and the ravages of milieus and things;
According, which rhythmically holds elements together in their similarities, differences and divergences, Vs. discordance.

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Brussels (BE), Winner – Le plateau du Maelbeek