Interview with Paul Blotin, architecture student at the National School of Architecture (Ensa) in Clermont-Ferrand. He is one of the five winners of the Palpite prize list (1), for his work on small towns.
Why did you choose Bouin and not Noirmoutier for example?
By discovering the Breton Vendée marshes, I was very marked by this very calm horizontal landscape as well as the anthropization of the territory, that is to say the way in which Man has transformed it to be able to live and cultivate there. thanks to the ditches, ditches and polders. I chose Bouin for his story. Furthermore, focusing the study on the entire marsh would have been too ambitious a subject to cover in a single semester.
How do you imagine the future of Bouin?
From the IPCC report which announces the rise in sea levels which could reach 2 meters by 2100, 15 meters in 2300 according to the worst scenarios. However, the time scales are quite variable, since they depend on the evolution of our emissions in the decades to come.
In the short term, we must consider a gradual increase in the frequency of floods and their intensity, in the medium term partial submersion and…
