Thierry MAYTRAUD - Urban Planner and Hydrologist.
Urban planner and hydrologist, Thierry Maytraud is specialized in planning urban spaces that allow water management, notably rain water. Far from the covered or closed retention basins, he offers us equipment that manages the runoff, the retention, the infiltration or even the filtration of rain water. We will thus see how a technical response to a problem of saturated networks can become the support for a project, integrated entirely in the architectural composition of public spaces.
WATER, A RISK?
Wednesday March 12th, 2014
In the Bernard Huet amphitheater at the school of Architecture Paris Belleville
60, bd de La Villette 75019 Paris
The risks tied with water are multiple and managed at different scales: treatment of surface water in public spaces, territorial management of floods, architectural answers to the rising waters,...
Confronted with these risks, we must adapt. These necessary adaptations and this interest in water influences projects and our way of life. Is water therefore a menace or a new terrain of exploration for the future of our society?
Christian WEISS - Bio-geographer.
Bio-geographer, ecologist and lecturer at "l'Université Paris 8 St Denis", he is specialized in humid environments, their symbolic and their issues. He has had allot of experience in natural environments and with legislation on water.
As an assistant and consultant for Ile de France Environnement for the elaboration of prevention plan for natural hazards, he can enlighten us on the operation of certain layout devices (watershed...) to prevent the hazards linked to water (storm events, floods, erosion, released pollution...) in the city or in rural areas.
Jacques ROUGERIE - Architect.
Jacques Rougerie, architect, member of the Institute of France and creator of a foundation in his name, has been founding for thirty years his research and productions on a bionic architecture, inspired by the marine world. His projects illustrate his will to innovate and spread the knowledge in architectural matters linked to water, particularly when evoking potential answers to today's, and future, rising waters. For him, this phenomenon isn't just a constraint and appears above all, as an opportunity to be closer to water, strong symbol of our lives and history.
For three years the Jacques Rougerie Foundation has been organizing a competition that offers young architects, engineers and designers the chance to propose an innovative project in matters of architecture concerned by the ocean, the rising waters and space. Founded on emerging progress, a prospective vision (including the design, engineering, urban planning, and artistic culture,...), the presented projects treat today's issues, encouraging more responsibility in environmental, industrial and technological matters and consider the precepts of sustainable development. They call to reflect on the evolution of our society.
Godfather of the Bellastock 2014 festival, Jacques Rougerie will intervene and accompany us along the evolution of the Waterworld project.
