PAVILLON DE L'ARSENAL - Thematic exhibitions

Architecture = Sustainable

30 architects, 30 projects in the Ile-de-France Area

« To take environmental issues into account is a fantastic way of renewing architecture. It is an opportunity to explore new technical and aesthetic means and to redefine the link with the city* »

In the exhibition Architecture = Sustainable architects convey their understanding of architecture with an aim to build sustainably by showing projects which are currently ongoing in the Ile-de-France area.

To watch the trailer and the 30 interviews video, click here

«…To create buildings which we want to keep…», Jean Nouvel
« …Sustainable architecture is inextricably linked with an improvement in quality of life … », Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
« …Architecture is an environment, so environmental concerns must be at the core of a project…», Dominique Perrault
« …We must be able to transform the buildings we create today in the future… », Françoise-Hélène Jourda
« …There are as many possibles forms as there are climates, regions, cities and materials … », KOZ architectes
« …We strive to build in a way that is technologically intelligent and appeals to the sense at the same time…», Matthias Sauerbruch

Exclusive film intervies, and numerous models are used to explain the thirty projects and are designed to thought provoking as well as to lead to innovation and to hint at the future of cities and their buildings.

Using these thirty projects, the exhibition presents the current and future measures and solutions to be applied at various levels. The seven criteria for analysis used to deconstruct these projects are based on the eighty European examples which are also presented in this exhibition. Urbanity, implementation, morphology, material and spatial concepts, systems and performance allow visitors to gain an understanding of environmental issues with a global outlook which places technical plans into an urban context and which, in turn, takes the built up city as its starting point for new projects.

The exhibition design is a structure of wooden bleachers into which the models and interviews have been placed; a sort of mould around which 30 wood beams and blocks simply placed on the floor to present the details of projects.

* Jacques Ferrier, architect and exhibition curator