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Habiter en construisant, construire en habitant : la « permanence architecturale », outil de développement urbain ?
This article examines through the prism of urban alterpolitiques some singular approaches, seeing architects living the place of the urban project that they have to rehabilitate. Neither entirely instigated by municipalities or actually derived from a social mobilization, these approaches are precisely situated in the complex interaction between refusal modeled entrepreneurial strategies, support for the urban poor, and opening experimentation in urban policies – including the symbolic aspects -. In contrast to the publicized "architect mansions", these "residential architects" are mutating the demiurgical designer feature into a simple invested inhabitant. It is mainly through the study of the recent experience of the Construire agency in Boulogne-sur-Mer (2010-2013), a renovation project of sixty inhabited houses, which the author attempts to identify key concepts of what his protagonists call "architectural permanence". After contextualizing this approach enrolling in both the history of the rehabilitation of housing in France and that of cultural democratization, the sources, definitions and stakes of this concept are studied in comparison of similar artistic approaches. Face to other comparable experiences, the issue of a possible institutionalization of these emerging practices is then lifted. However, the fragility of these initiatives at very small scales reflects their dependence on ultra-local contexts, slowing their normativity.
Habiter en construisant, construire en habitant : la « permanence architecturale », outil de développement urbain ?
This article examines through the prism of urban alterpolitiques some singular approaches, seeing architects living the place of the urban project that they have to rehabilitate. Neither entirely instigated by municipalities or actually derived from a social mobilization, these approaches are precisely situated in the complex interaction between refusal modeled entrepreneurial strategies, support for the urban poor, and opening experimentation in urban policies – including the symbolic aspects -. In contrast to the publicized "architect mansions", these "residential architects" are mutating the demiurgical designer feature into a simple invested inhabitant. It is mainly through the study of the recent experience of the Construire agency in Boulogne-sur-Mer (2010-2013), a renovation project of sixty inhabited houses, which the author attempts to identify key concepts of what his protagonists call "architectural permanence". After contextualizing this approach enrolling in both the history of the rehabilitation of housing in France and that of cultural democratization, the sources, definitions and stakes of this concept are studied in comparison of similar artistic approaches. Face to other comparable experiences, the issue of a possible institutionalization of these emerging practices is then lifted. However, the fragility of these initiatives at very small scales reflects their dependence on ultra-local contexts, slowing their normativity.
Habiter en construisant, construire en habitant : la « permanence architecturale », outil de développement urbain ?
Édith Hallauer (author)
2015
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