Winners of the Archi Jeunes II competition of Valode & Pistre

The Valode & Pistre Architectes agency felt that beyond the health and economic shock it was causing, this health crisis was going to change our vision of many aspects of collective and individual life, and that it would have a long-lasting impact. term on our behaviors and in particular those related to our way of living, living, working... Simultaneously with this crisis, awareness of the effects of global warming and pollution of the planet due to human activities is increasingly widely shared by the population. These subjects are now to be invested in the design of all types of buildings, which must integrate new health, social and environmental expectations.

By organizing the Archi Jeunes prize, the Valode & Pistre agency wishes to give a voice to architecture students at the end of their studies or who have just graduated, who intend to contribute to this development. “We are convinced that this new generation of architects can be at the origin of a creative and innovative vision on these subjects. It will also be an opportunity for them to make themselves known and to integrate into the professional world by finding the means to deepen their own thinking”, indicate Denis Valode and Jean Pistre. The projects are selected by a jury made up of architects and personalities chosen for their interest and their sensitivity to the issues raised. The winners are awarded a scholarship and have the opportunity to join the agency in order to deepen their thinking.

Archi Jeunes 2023: the urban hotel of tomorrow

Today, more than ever, the hotel is confronted with essential challenges which condition its future, in particular:

• The environmental issue. This primarily concerns its construction and layout and in particular the carbon footprint. This involves using low-emissivity construction materials and techniques with the guarantees of resistance and sound insulation specific to the hotel environment. This also concerns the operation of the hotel in terms of energy expenditure and the use of water, the hotel being a place that is not very favorable to controlling this consumption.
• The difficulty of recruiting personnel which makes the simplification of its operation even more critical.
• Its insertion in the urban and societal context, its role and its symbolism in today's world. The renewal of the hotel concept and the development of new uses appear as essential axes.

With all these challenges in mind, the hotel's architecture is an opportunity to design emblematic, rich and even surprising places. This is why it is the subject of the second session of the Archi Jeunes competition. Candidates were therefore asked to freely choose a site in an urban environment, a type of program and to develop a concept of hotel architecture relevant to the issues listed above.

Valode et Pistre has developed many hotel projects in France and abroad, ranging from luxury hotels like the Bulgari in Paris to budget hotels with Eklo. This experience confirms that the hotel is a place where architecture should take a very significant place and that it must find a significant role in the city.

Proposals

The projects of the candidates respond to the challenges posed, and in particular that of urban development. A great variety in the answers was noted, all relevant, offering varied typologies.

• The proposals are aimed at different population categories;
• The projects include some new constructions, but a large majority offer transformations of existing buildings, which proves that rehabilitation can be creative. It is not experienced as a constraint, but as a virtuous re-use;
• The proposals are rich, even surprising sometimes! They incorporate activities that bring a new dimension to the traditional hotel industry.

This wealth of reflections confirms that the young generation of architects is at the origin of a creative and innovative vision, renewing uses and accompanying the new expectations of a changing world. The hotel is no longer a simple accommodation, but opens up permanently to the city and plays a role in the city.

The jury and the prizes

The projects were selected by a jury made up of architects and personalities chosen for their interest and their sensitivity to the issues raised.

Around Jean Pistre and Denis Valode, gathered (in alphabetical order):

• David Abiker, Journalist & Columnist
• Aurélien Bellanger, Novelist & columnist
• Elena Fernandez, Architect Valode & Pistre
• Pierre Hermé, Chocolate Pastry Chef, Founder of Maison Pierre Hermé
• Elisabeth Lazaroo, Journalist
• Marylou Machecourt, Archi Jeunes I Laureate, Architect Valode & Pistre
• Rodolphe Parente, Interior architect, designer
• Brune Poirson, Former Minister, Director of Sustainable Development Accor Group
• Serge Trigano, Co-founder of Mama Shelter and Mama Works, Former President of Club Med

The first two teams will have the opportunity to join Valode & Pistre. All the winners will benefit from media exposure and their projects will be exhibited for a period of 2 months within the Valode & Pistre agency and will be visible on the agency's website and on its social networks.

Organizers

Valode & Pistre is today one of the leading French architecture and urban planning agencies. Founded in 1980 by Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, today surrounded by nine partners, it has nearly 200 architects of twenty nationalities and 150 achievements delivered throughout the world.

Based in Paris with a subsidiary in Beijing, it develops projects in France and abroad: Europe, Asia, Middle East, Russia, Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa. The practice of Valode & Pistre covers very diversified scales, from the design of overall plans for new towns to the design of pieces of furniture. It also concerns a wide variety of programs, with particular expertise in the field of major facilities, towers, tertiary campuses and new mixed residential areas. In all areas of intervention, architects are committed to transferring contributions and innovations from one area to another, and above all to proposing renewed and original fundamental reflections that go beyond the project itself. . This is particularly the case with regard to the quality of living and working places as well as public spaces. To do this, the agency draws from the heart of plural questions, as much sociological, scientific, as ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and cultural...

For Denis Valode & Jean Pistre: “What interests us is creating buildings that could not have been created anywhere else. The architectural gesture then has a meaning, roots. »

The laureats

1st prize

• MARINE SZYMCZAK
  • Totem

Marine SZYMCZAK wins a scholarship of 8000€, and the possibility of integrating the agency Valode & Pistre (CDD of 6 months renewable).

2e price

• LOU RANDE & JULIETTE ESCOT
  • In motion

They win a grant of €6000 to be shared between the members of the team, and the possibility of joining the Valode & Pistre agency (CDD of 6 months renewable) for the members of the winning team.

3e price

• ANISSA LE SCORNET & ENORA CLOITRE
  • 65 rue d'Aubagne

They win a grant of €4000 to be shared among the team members.

4e price

• ABDOUL MUMINE IDE SEYNI & MOUSSA KABORE
  • The line as serving thickness

They win a grant of €3000 to be shared among the team members.

5e price

• TEVI ALLAN MENSAH
  • At home elsewhere

He wins a scholarship of 3000€.

were also nominated

• Romain Guillou, H(eau)tel
• Jongmin Kim, Almost a Town
• Caroline Monnier & Victor Boutin, L'Oxydé
• Lou Rande & Juliette Escot, In Motion
• Maxime Silvy & Amir Toum Benchekroun, Hotel Paris Express
• Jeremy Thompson, A daily life like any other

1st prize

MARINE SCYMCZACK Totem

The choice to rehabilitate an old silo in Reims was motivated by its character as a totem, a typology that can be found throughout the territory, often in changing urban districts. In a strategy of reclaiming neglected urban areas, the idea is to propose a building that would operate on different scales, contributing both to daily life and to the animation of the public space (theater, place of meetings and culture), while being identifiable as a new place of reference for the city. The skeleton of the silos, akin to a concrete cathedral, offers an imaginary potential to reinvent its programs - here a hotel, but tomorrow a multitude of possibilities.

2e price

LOU RANDÉ & JULIETTE ESCOT In Motion

Located at the foot of the Père-Lachaise cemetery, in the 24th arrondissement of Paris, and at the heart of various strategic trajectories, InMotion was designed to support the lives of several hundred people as a resource building for the district. Based on an innovative construction system that is totally modular, scalable and reversible, In Motion is built on a wooden structure that allows for accelerated construction, the unique frame of which can accommodate all possible forms of activity, a living platform 24 hours a day, a hotel for everyone.

3e price

ANISSA LE SCORNET & ENORA CLOITRE 65 rue d'Aubagne

The project is located in the heart of downtown Marseille, in the former hotel district of Noailles. The insalubrity of the building caused the collapse of two buildings on rue d'Aubagne in 2018. Designed to bring this heart of the block back to life, this hotel invents a new form of intergenerational housing through an innovative program: rooms for passing visitors as well as for senior residents, urban camping areas, public coworking café, oasis garden and swimming pool with its bar.

The project questions the relationship to the urban environment but also the ways of living and visiting a city confronted with mass tourism and the climate crisis.

4e price

ABDOUL MOUMINE IDE SEYNI & MOUSSA KABORE The line as serving thickness

This hotel project, located in the town of Saint-Denis, is being developed around a business hotel program. Bar, restaurant, multipurpose room, art gallery, coworking spaces, green rooftop, swimming pool and gym can accommodate both hotel guests and external guests such as staff from local businesses. In response to the noise pollution generated by the A86 motorway, the project is designed around a rectilinear figure constituting both a distribution space and an insulating thickness around which the rooms are organized. The bathrooms are located on the street side, reinforcing this insulating thickness. The window is no longer a hole in the wall and becomes a place where you can sit, work, rest and read.

5e price

TEVI ALLAN MENSAH At home elsewhere

The project takes as its starting point an urban opportunity: the presence of a multitude of potential buildings that can be transformed. Chez-moi Ailleurs, a project as much as a research, focuses on the possibility of converting one of the 135 buildings for automobiles in inner Paris. The project takes the hotel program as a means of transforming the city. Here, they place themselves at the heart of a heat island that has been overbuilt over time. The project proposes a structure of joined elements with the addition of two floors in wood and plaster (materials sourced within a radius of 99km from the project) to the existing car park. These unsuspected capable structures in the heart of the capital make it possible to take an interest in the conditions of habitability in the contemporary city.