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Architecture and Digital Technology is the historical focus of the EVCAU laboratory, which, since its creation, has been investing in architectural design methods and models in the era of digital processes and data-driven generative models.
At all scales, from the body to the home to the city, data supports the interpretation and modeling of human organizations, enriching experimental and theoretical investigation methodologies. The use of data raises fundamental questions of ethics, politics, and creativity, which the research area critically examines in the field of architectural research.
Since its creation in 2015, the Architecture, Health, Vulnerability research group has been one of the leading teams in architectural research on these extremely sensitive topics. This activity is supported by networks and collaborations that promote this focus area: it brings together numerous resource persons and partners in the health sector, including: Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP); Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille AP-HM; Paris Cité University, notably its Faculty of Health, which is unique in France and a leader in Europe; Reims University Hospital; Nantes University Hospital-Hôtel Dieu; the France-United States Memorial Hospital in Saint-Lô; and the Nanterre Hospital Care Center.
Researchers working in this area are convinced that transforming what already exists is a major lever for ecological transition—in this era of anthropocentric lucidity—and have made it the main focus of their research, accompanied by an understanding of the transition between theory and practice, between discourse, narrative, and reality.
The existing is perceived as a resource, studied from the material to the larger territory, in France and internationally. It is analyzed through the prism of design processes (thoughts, tools, actors, deliverables), constructions (program, ecology, economy, project, construction site, energy), and transformations (models and transmissions, doctrines, palimpsests, reconstructions, reversibilities, reuses, bio- and geo-sourced).
Research in the “Projective Ecologies & Systemic Design” area focuses on the genetics of forms and organizations of inhabited territories, whether large territories, urban agglomerations, or buildings, and their care. The morphogenetic approach aims to explain the emergence, disappearance, or transformation of human ecumens and the underlying anthropological, political, and economic dynamics.
The architectural/architectonic phenomenon is also considered to be an artefactual eco-systemic phenomenon whose genesis processes are in every way similar to those of nature, i.e., as an emergence (formation) produced by the interaction of a system of interrelated and interdependent factors (Darwinian evolution).
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