Sketchbook 2021 | Transition Seeds – Fondation Braillard Architectes

As part of its research and culture programme The Eco-Century Project®, the Fondation Braillard Architectes continues its commitment to the ecological transition through architectural, urban and landscape design.
For the 2021 season, the Foundation wishes to extend this field of exploration to higher education at master’s level: fertile ground for sowing the seeds of the future professions of the transition.
This year we are offering the public a series of presentations based on diploma projects from the EPFL School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering. They were selected for the quality of their analysis, design and representation of spatial transformation through the lens of the environmental emergency.
The presentations will take place once a month from January (see programme below) from 17:30 to 19:00, followed by an exchange with a qualified respondent and an open discussion with the audience.

PROGRAMME

14 January 2021 | 17:30 – 19:00
FORESTS FIRST
Reflections on the human territorial footprint in the context of the climate impasse

Simon CERF-CARPENTIER
Architect, Dipl. EPFL.
LabU (Urbanism Laboratory, EPFL).

Respondent:
Valérie CABANES
International lawyer specialising in human rights
Member of the Advisory Board of Stop Ecocide
Honorary President of Notre Affaire à Tous

25 March 2021 | 17:30 – 19:00
WHAT POST-INDUSTRIAL FUTURE?
A metropolitan park for the ecological reclamation of our urban ports

Killian WORRETH &

Architect at Atelier Descombes et Rampini, Geneva

Rima BOUNEMER

Architect and urban planner at Ema – Eric Maria architectes

Respondent:
Frédéric PITAVAL
Engineer specialising in the environment and aquatic ecosystems

29 April 2021 | 17:30 – 19:00
MARGINAL TERRITORY, REGIONAL STRENGTH
A new habitability in marginal territories through the restoration of heritage landscapes

Élodie DIAS

architect and urban planner EPFL at ABA Partenaires SA, Lausanne

Respondent:

Laurent GUIDETTI
Associate Director of TRIBU architecture SA
Architect and urban planner EPFL SIA FSU
Author of the book “Manifeste pour une révolution territoriale” (2021)

27 May 2021 | 17:30 – 19:30
REUSE OF BUILDING COMPONENTS
Designing with existing urban resources

Célia KÜPFER
Architect and doctoral candidate at the EPFL Structural Xploration Lab

Respondent:
Marc ANGST
Urban planner

MAPPING THE TRANSITION
Cartographic explorations of the diverse ways of inhabiting the territory of the Alpine-Lake Geneva metropolis

Noélie LECOANET

Doctoral candidate EPFL, Architect EPFL

Respondent:
Antoine VIALLE
Architect, urban planner
EPFL

The programme may be subject to change.