5th edition of the National Architecture Days, ask for the program

Under the name "Architects celebrate the JNArchi 2020", the National Council of the Order of Architects is fully associated with the event and promotes the opening of doors in architectural firms. The Councils of architecture, town planning and the environment, the network of Houses of architecture, the national higher schools of architecture, the cultural places dedicated to architecture as well as the organizers of architecture and heritage in local authorities are also mobilizing. All offer curious, amateurs and enthusiasts of architecture a varied program for these three days: meetings and debates with those involved in architecture, visits to buildings and construction sites, urban walks, technical and artistic exhibitions, educational workshops for everyone. ages ...

Draw architecture in Lugdunum, Museum and Roman Theater in Lyon, in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes. At the heart of this architectural masterpiece, the sobriety of concrete and clean lines fit into the Gallo-Roman site and build a space apart. Focused on the lines and spaces of this brutalist object imagined by the architect Bernard Zehrfuss, visitors are invited to observe and draw the large volumes and details of the building and to reconstruct their production resulting from this architectural and temporal journey.

The Maison de l'Architecture de Besançon in Franche-Comté offers an architectural trip to Rome. Thierry Jousse, director and former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinema, co-edited with Thierry Paquot a reference book La Ville au Cinéma, which explores for the first time the representation of the city on the screen. The spectators will thus be able to discover the incredible architecture of the city of Rome, through the prism of the cinema.

In Brittany in Ploemeur, the renovation of a house from the 60s is an opportunity to integrate permaculture in the heart of the city center. The architecture plays with technical constraints and uses the heritage of the 60s to give new life to this house. The roof allows for example the installation of solar panels and the collection of rainwater for the toilets, the washing machine and the garden.

The large hall of Romorantin-Lanthenay in Center-Val de Loire, built in 1902, was designed by the engineer Hennebique and built by the contractor Coutant et Cie. Covering an area of ​​nearly one hectare, this huge room contained more than 200 looms. A vast site rehabilitation project is underway. The reopening in October 2016 of the looms building is one step in this.

For 2 hours, the Brun de Vian-Tiran factory, emblem of the PACA region, offers a unique visit to L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, a living witness to the city's textile origins. From the paddle wheels to the factory, visitors will discover everything about the origins of Isle, a cloth town with industrial architecture.

In the Haut de France, the city of Electricians in Bruay-la-Buissière invites you to take the full measure of the value of local heritage. It is one of the emblematic buildings of the urban landscape of the region. Now is the time to come and observe it a little more closely, to learn more about its construction materials, the companies and craftsmen who have rehabilitated it. The youngest will also be able to familiarize themselves with the act of building, and perhaps give birth to a vocation in them!

At the Metro factory in Saint-Ouen, the Société du Grand Paris en Île-de-France offers a workshop-visit for schoolchildren. A discovery of the techniques used to build and then develop stations, emphasizing the challenges of accessibility to public transport. The designers' choices are brought to light through observation and experimentation. At the end of the visit, a creative workshop invites students to put themselves in the shoes of a future user of the network (foreign tourist, person with a disability, etc.) and then to identify and mobilize the various services and devices that will facilitate their routes from the entrance of the station to the metro.

In Normandy, Le Havre, a major port area, has undergone major developments in recent decades with new port infrastructures. The proposed walk allows you to discover from the sea, the projects that today run alongside the basins and the inner port. This renewed city-port interface, notably with the National Maritime School (ENSM) and the Digital City, testifies to the need to constantly reinvent a dialogue between the city and its port.

La Cité Numérique in Bordeaux in New Aquitaine, is an innovative project, in terms of operation, and virtuous from the point of view of ecological transition. It offers to welcome, for the first time, a cross-examination of the actors of the public space to discuss its recent developments. The round tables are organized around two central themes: public space as a fundamental space for social ties, for living together, and public space as a place of expression of artistic and sporting potential.

A program of visits to houses and apartments located in Haute-Garonne and carried out by architects, whose projects testify to an architectural quality, with the Council of Architecture, Urbanism and the Environment 31 in Occitanie. Environmental inclusion, quality of use and comfort, project economics will be the themes addressed. Each half-day visit will be carried out in the presence of the client and the architect. They will enlighten participants on the construction process, from the design phase to acceptance, including site management.

For a quality living environment, it is important that architecture and environment are in coherence and dialogue. In Nantes, in the Pays de la Loire region, the Jardin des 5 Sens is a green lung, a space for play and contemplation in the heart of the Ile de Nantes. It is also, with the growth and renewal of this district, the square of the buildings which surround it. The guided tour presents how the garden fits into a larger system, nourished by the relationship with the dense city, the river and nature in the city.

Visiting places usually closed to the public is the proposition of the Departmental Museum of Prehistory of the Verdon Gorges in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Signed Norman Foster, this building invites visitors to discover prehistory from a different perspective. It traces the major stages of Prehistory based on archaeological discoveries made in the caves of Verdon during the XNUMXth century.

On the site journeesarchitecture.fr, find the programming; key information on contemporary architecture today in France and the presentation of actions carried out by the partners of the event.