PROJECT

Project Coordinator

After studying and practicing architecture in Paris, Philippe oriented his carrier to the cinema industry where he worked on long feature films and advertising. He then turned his interest to documentary film making, writing and travelling. Roaming the world for over two decades, he published articles in magazines such as Geo Magazine, VSD, El Païs; and produced and directed films that have been broadcast on national and international channels as well as film festivals. Becoming an award wining film maker, he grew more and more concerned by the fast evolving social and environmental degradation worldwide. His personal research about complex systems lead him to permaculture, for which he got his first certification in 2010. Since then he has been designing and leading projects, applying permaculture principles, concepts and techniques in Haiti, France, Hong Kong and now the Philippines.

Architect, Engineer and Professor

After early career in Hong Kong and France working for several engineering and architecture firms, Cyrille created with Olivier Leclercq their agency AIR (Architectures Ingénieries Recherches) in 2000. AIR realized several public buildings (schools, community centers, medical and para-medical centers, etc.) as well as public housings. He has been teaching since 2006 at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Belleville and is now the Program Director of a post-diploma class Specializing in Major Risks. After leading architecture missions in places such as Haiti and Peru, he developed a research around precarious habitats in Ile de France, then in Calais and in Grande Synthe working on refugees issues from 2015. From these various experiences and concerned by the concept of “person’s dignity” in their living environment he created with his associate Olivier and other concerned actors the NGO Actes & Cités in 2015.

Architect & Urban Planner

Olivier studied architecture at UCL in Tournai, Belgium, and in Karlsruhe, Germany. He then studied urban planning in Lille, France. He completed missions in London and Warsaw for the French Ministry of Economy & Finances, before spending 2 years working on humanitarian and development projects in Abidjan, Africa. Back in Paris he worked 2 more years with the Architecture Studio agency before opening his own, the AIR (Architectures, Ingeniéries et Recherches) agency, in association with Cyrille Hanappe. The AIR agency integrates in the same strutcture architecture design, engineering and researches. Their work tends toward promoting citizen appropriation of their building and spaces as well as integrating environmental issues in innovative ways. 

Architect, Urban Planner & Landscape Engineer

Once graduated in architecture in Venice, Massimo, left Italy and settled in Paris, where he specialized in landscape engineering (ENSP Versailles). After 15 years of practice as a project manager in the field of urban renewal and landscape architecture, he started his own activity as a consultant in urban planning and urban resilience and he is also senior consultant in urban planning and landscape architecture for A+I architects and engineers (Paris, Bordeaux).

Since 2007 he’s been developing a proactive approach dealing with the integration of climate change effects in the urban, architectural and landscape design process, which he pursued further through obtaining a master in Architecture and Major Risks in 2014. Global strategic vision, interdisciplinary approach, social awareness, are the keywords of his researches, applied in different projects: field missions in Haiti, Peru, and Cambodia.

Massimo is convinced that a social participatory approach (bottom-up thinking) is one of the keys of success of sustainable urbanism. Therefore since 2013 he is involved in various digital tools development projects focusing on co-construction and knowledge sharing.

Architect Specialised in Major Risks

Diploma DPLG in 2014, Luc specialised then in major risks through the DSA Risques Majeurs of ENSA Paris Belleville. He spent 6 months dedicated to the study of seismic building techniques in high risk zones taught by specialists such as M. Grosso or Milan Zacek. During his studies he joined several missions, one in Japan following the 2011 tsunami, one in China to learn about bamboo building and another one in Nepal following the earthquake in 2015, where he worked with UNESCO on the Durbar square of Kathmandu. He has been educated to respond to flooding risks working on a 6 months project in South West of France to mitigate the flash flooding around the city of Lourdes. Luc has been working for the two last years for a Parisian agency specialized in France heritage’s rehabilitation, though he keeps participating to numerous mission by his own to deepen his researches about urban resilience.

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Architect

Christophe Frank Donat CORMY graduated in architecture last june 2016 ( he received the « special jury prize » of ESA for his degree projects on waste recycling) ,Christophe Have been study at École Spéciale d'architecture (ESA) in Paris and at Hongik university in Seoul. During his studies he joined severals missions namely: in Mancora, Peru in june 2014 after winning competition (master class of the Studio of Fabienne Bulle), where he designed and built a house in Bamboo of 100 m2 for a family and one in Chandur, In India where he joined a project of earthbag construction houses which is an inexpensive method using mostly local soils to create structures which are both strong and can be quickly built. After his graduation he created and founded the NGO IKIKO. The IKIKO project involves the construction of a new village for the Badjao tribe of Isabel there were 350 people in Leyte island (the Philippine archipelago). There are 50 houses will be build in total, as of today 20 are already built (the end of the construction is estimate in august 2017) and one multipurpose building was built already.