FABRIQUE. Network of architectures

Christelle Chalumeaux, Katarina Dubravkova, Claude Valentin
We’ve established a network of architects, artisans and academicians who are collaborating on the ACAR2 project in Senones. Our aim is to conceptualize and construct possible, concrete, sociopolitically relevant spaces designed to be a setting for life, spaces that are centered on the practices and necessities of people living today. For us, architecture is an experiment in which we concentrate primarily on the aspect of the body and the gesture in order to conceive architecture from within and to observe the construction as it comes into being.This open platform is being utilized as a place of production and of critical exchange of knowledge and know-how. We consider interdisciplinarity today as an indispensable part of our development and of the quality of our projects. Depending on the needs of a particular assignment, we form a collective to resolve problems and surmount certain conceptual obstacles that arise during the course of the project, or at least to develop approaches to a solution. In addition to the members themselves, the network is being supported by pedagogical institutions, research labs and the following innovative facilities:
ENSAN, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (school of architecture), Nancy
CRAI, Centre de Recherche en Architecture et en Ingénieurie (research center for architecture and engineering), Nancy
ICN Business School, a member of the ARTEM alliance, Nancy
HAHA architects and HOUOT agency for the design & creation of retail outlets, Saint Nabord
IGAE group of interior designers, Paris
Christelle Chalumeaux Architecte, Paris