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The Quartus Endowment Fund for Architecture is a public-interest structure designed to initiate, support and share initiatives aimed at awakening and transmitting an architectural and environmental culture, exploring forward-looking issues around city building and supporting young creative talent.
Conceiving architecture as a cultural act rooted in the complexity of each situation, regenerating the city to adapt it to contemporary challenges, seizing natural resources and materials for a more virtuous architecture, experimenting on a scale of 1, building together a city that resembles us - these are just some of the issues addressed in the programming of the Quartus Endowment for Architecture.
The Quartus Endowment Fund is structured around 6 regional programs, aimed at all publics and always carried out in partnership with the institutions and players concerned. It initiates debates to cultivate and share collective intelligence, supports research to combine progress and the common good, works with national architecture schools, raises awareness among young people to awaken a desire for architecture, and creates encounters around the urban challenges of a specific region.
With the Students & Young Creation program, the Quartus Endowment Fund for Architecture is committed to supporting young architects, who are more than ever at the heart of the challenges facing tomorrow's cities, supporting initiatives to promote the ecological transition, promoting experimentation, raising awareness of natural resources and materials, and encouraging travel.
With this in mind, the Quartus Endowment Fund, in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture, has launched Les expérimentales to promote and encourage initiatives and approaches that encourage experimentation and prototyping within the various ENSAs in France. The aim of Les expérimentales is to initiate, accompany and support initiatives that enable students and young architects to develop a culture of experimentation and the desire to explore other ways of designing and practicing architecture.
This year, from March to July, the Quartus Endowment Fund initiated its first collaboration with the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles to support the third edition of the “Détailler, formuler, construire” workshop led by Nicolas Dorval Bory and coached by Nicolas Didier, Clément Duroselle and Thomas Raynaud with first-year students in the Civil Engineering/Architect double degree program delivered in partnership with CYTech. In addition to providing the material support needed to build these micro-architectures, and working alongside the students and Nicolas Dorval Bory throughout the various stages of their projects, the partnership also includes the publication of all the experiments carried out over three years, enabling this work to be made public and shared with as many people as possible.
“This pedagogical approach draws on the sound scientific knowledge that young students are currently acquiring, to enter directly into the reality of what ultimately makes up architecture and space. By approaching the project in detail, we open up the possibility of understanding the scale of architecture (1/1 scale) and its assembly principles, and of directly manipulating the material through the creation of scale models and prototypes. Here, technicality and physics are used as supports for project design, as well as pretexts for building up a culture and developing a conceptual reflection on the quality of spaces and their articulation. Far from being an isolated, fragmentary exercise, the detailed project and its construction to scale are an opportunity to explore all the fundamental aspects of architecture, from the little story to the big story, from why we sometimes insulate, sometimes don't, to where the rainwater runs off the roof, to why we liked concrete so much, and why we had to find alternatives to it, of countries where we prefer to be in the shade, of those where the important thing is light, and all these questions that seem anecdotal but which, fundamentally, are the keys to understanding and designing all architecture, once and tomorrow, here and elsewhere. ”
Nicolas Dorval Bory
Around the three pavilions built, installed and presented until early July in the garden of the Third of Eleven in the heart of the Potager du Roi at Versailles - the Quartus endowment fund has organized educational workshops for youngsters to learn about architecture while having fun.
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