Ecological emergency, social emergency, economic emergency, housing is at the heart of all the turbulence.

However, building quality collective housing in France today has become a combat sport. The sum of the good will of all the actors concerned has led to a situation, where the most likely outcome of a current operation is to be hazardous from the point of view of its construction, uncomfortable from the point of view of what one is entitled to expect from a dwelling, and indifferent to the constitution of a sustainable and significant urban landscape.
Banality, seen as the nobility of everyday life, has become synonymous with mediocrity, and collective housing, the poor relative of a rich country.
In the face of such a challenge, this exhibition is modestly devoted to exposing some avenues which aim to base, on architectural criteria, the fertile field of action that constitutes the manufacture of housing:

• to question the novelty,
• qualify the void,
• linking form and organization,
• think about intimacy,
• put the kitchen in the heart,
• affirm the durability of the structure,
• value repetition,
• and exalt the art of building.
  This exploration is based on several modes of representation, which make it possible to think of architecture as an open form, without being limited to the inhibiting contemplation of a finished object.
• Standardized drawings, illustrated scenes, site photos, debarked models, aim to illustrate the complexity of the roads that lead from the design of a project to the factory of the contemporary city, between intimacy and collective life.*
  Invested for many years in the design and implementation of numerous collective housing projects, the architectural agency Bourbouze & Graindorge defends the idea of an architectural project inscribed in the urban imagination, attentive to uses, and thus anchored in the idea of domesticity.
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  Exhibition realized by Bourbouze & Graindorge architects, with the technical support of the Maison régionale de l'architecture des Pays de la Loire et du Voyage in Nantes.