ABSTRACT
As a result, more often than not, the relationship between the construction and design industries is difficult due to the incompatibility between the aim of the architectural design and the transformation into structural design for civil engineering. In most cases, tertiary education does not properly prepare young professionals for collaborative work between disciplines (Charleson 2009). To address this issue, some institutions started to offer multidisciplinary initiative courses. During 2007, at Grenoble (France), the “Conception collaborative” course involved master students from the architectural school (ENSAG) and from civil engineering (UJF). In this course, students acted as both architects and engineers with the aim of developing a project for the refurbishment of a building (Sieffert et al. 2012). This course showed that, to improve efficiency, collaboration must be achieved in the early stages and conceptual phase of the project as the architect will not get the best results by demanding a structure from the engineer under already fixed and constraining boundary conditions (Schlaich 2001). The difficult relationship between both actors is usually due to miscommunications, and during the course period, students began to understand each other languages. On the basis of the success of this first experience,
Y. Sieffert & D. Daudon Engineer, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Phitem, 3SR, France
J.-M. Huygen Architect, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Marseille, France
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the outcomes of a series of innovative pedagogical workshops conducted to bridge the gap between architects and civil engineer students on the topic of sustainability design and construction. In sustainable building, minimizing the use of energy is an important topic. Another relevant topic is to minimize the use of raw materials because natural resources are finite and limited. Increasing materials recycling potential is one solution. Nevertheless, new energy is consumed in recycling process and embodied energy in materials is lost. A more efficient possibility is to repurpose materials. Repurposing is not new in construction and some pioneer works have already been built around the world but the same difficulty is always relevant: convince that these materials can be used with a matter of aesthetically architectural style to the fight against prejudice. Obviously, civil engineers are necessary to obtain safety constructions with these unusual materials. Clearly, the challenge to build with repurposed materials needs a real collaborative work between architect and civil engineer. A special workshop has been created in France since 2008, to start a first collaboration between architects and civil engineers students with repurposed materials. The objective was to design and to build constructions together in ten days. The aim of this paper is to present results of three workshops realized in Marseille (France). A “village”, with a spatial organization (buildings, gardens, walkways), has been erected from a mound of waste, to give a second life to materials. Both technological process and aesthetically aspect are described for one major construction.
