“Habiter solidaire” offers a new perspective on emergency housing by bringing to light places that are still too often overlooked in the city and in public discourse. The exhibition explores these spaces of solidarity as genuine living environments, where architecture can help restore dignity, privacy, autonomy, and social connections.
Through a selection of shelters in the Île-de-France region, the exhibition highlights the diversity of responses to the emergency: renovating, building, converting, temporarily occupying, sharing resources, and opening up to the neighborhood… These are all ways of creating spaces capable of meeting basic needs while fostering community life.
Designed as an immersive experience, the exhibition brings together architectural documents, photographs, models, materials, testimonials, and films. It thus reveals the spatial, social, and human dimensions of these projects and explores the role of hospitality in shaping the metropolis. “Habiter solidaire” thus advocates the idea that emergency housing is not merely a response to a crisis, but a matter of architecture and society.
Designed as an immersive experience, the exhibition brings together architectural documents, photographs, models, materials, testimonials, and films. It thus reveals the spatial, social, and human dimensions of these projects and explores the role of hospitality in shaping the metropolis. “Habiter solidaire” thus advocates the idea that emergency housing is not merely a response to a crisis, but a matter of architecture and society.
