E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Collective Unit

Paris (FR) – Runner-up

Team Representative: Julia Tournaire (FR) – architect; Associates: Marie-Charlotte Dalin (FR) – architect  

+33 6 76 76 72 80 – a.collectiveunit@gmail.com

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^{J. Tournaire and M.-C. Dalin}

"The adaptable city is above all the city that is able to root the contemporary practices of its inhabitants into the metropolis development and then to embody the shared desires. In Paris –as well as in other major metropolis– half of the households consists of one person and single persons or people in business trip abound. These neo-nomadics, pluri-topical individuals create very dynamic inhabiting practices as they fulfill themselves in several distinct places. According to us, here is the main principle of the contemporary urban adaptability. The adaptable city responds to the varied interrelationships. This could be achieved through a direct and non-hierarchical relationship establishment between the single individual itself and the whole urban territory […]"