Within the framework of its commitment for the promotion of the young architects and the architectural creation, Pavillon de l'Arsenal invites every year the schools of architecture to expose the most innovative works. In 2012, Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris and l’Académie d’Architecture de Mendrisio (Switzerland) are invited to explore and invent new perspectives for the manufacturing of the Parisian metropolis.
Raynaud and Sebastien Chabbert, students of the Special School of Architecture draw another map of Paris: that of micro real estate, improbable sites, cramped land and invisible opportunities. Of the inventory of these numerous urban residues, distributed in all the districts of the capital, they invent new opportunities, which they transform and invest in new-shared equipment. With singular and innovative architecture, " possible Paris " is Paris of the possible.
To all extent, supervised by Kersten Geers (KGDVS SERVICE), the students of the Swiss academy question they the integration of the big urban services in the Plain of France. Centers of data, places of storage or maintenance, their proposals XXL raise the urban question of her "big cubicle". When the stake in the design of the city becomes metropolitan Architecture without tell makes sensitive each in the necessary consideration of programs that the XXth century in too often forgotten or rejected to the periphery.
Prospective reflections, the proposals of fiftyish students offer renewed perspectives for the manufacturing of our future territory but also for today the new manners to think and live the city.