Renovate a barn or build a bioclimatic house, a consulting architect from CAUE du Lot examines your house projects free of charge

Renovate a barn or build a bioclimatic house, a consulting architect from CAUE du Lot examines your house projects free of charge
Renovate a barn or build a bioclimatic house, a consulting architect from CAUE du Lot examines your house projects free of charge

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Once a month, a consulting architect from the CAUE du Lot is on call in Figeac, as in other municipalities in the department, to help individuals carry out their construction or renovation project. Who can request an appointment? When is it advisable to contact the consulting architect? What are the most frequent requests?

From the first office of the year, the meetings followed one another on Friday afternoon for the consulting architect of the CAUE du Lot (Council of Architecture, Urban Planning and the Environment) welcomed at the headquarters of the Grand Figeac. After a meeting with instructors from the town planning department of the community of communes, Edouard Segalen received individuals with whom he took the time to study their house project. The free service provides support to owners wishing to embark on renovation or construction. Explanations.

  • Who are these hotlines for?

“The people who come mainly have construction or renovation projects. Their request can range from the problem of purchasing a house to thermal renovation. It’s very varied” explains Edouard Segalen, consulting architect at the CAUE du Batch. The appointment lasts approximately one hour. This free and independent advisory service is relaunched once a month in Figeac until June 2025. In the Lot, three consulting architects from the CAUE handle around 300 advices to individuals per year via various monthly hotlines which take place as in Figeac once a month, at the headquarters of the Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park in Labastide-Murat, in Puy l’Évêque as well as in Vayrac twice a month. Appointments can also be made at the CAUE du Lot premises.

  • At what stage of a house project is it recommended to make an appointment?

As soon as possible, according to Edouard Segalen. “The best thing is for people to come at the beginning of their reflection, especially when it comes to a change of destination or even a question linked to the siting of a house on land. This will be easier to guide individuals and help them know whether they need to use an architect, a project manager, or to direct them towards qualified craftsmen. The consulting architect also receives owners who have already been refused a prior declaration of work or a building permit. He then tries to “find a solution”. People who have already been seen can make an appointment without any problem.

  • What are the recurring questions and emerging trends?

“Each time, we discover new projects but often a set of questions comes up: how to carry out a quality rehabilitation? how to transform a barn into housing or what is a bioclimatic building? Our audience is mainly targeted at renovation of old buildings and the construction of ecological houses with a moderate budget” summarizes Edouard Segalen. The consulting architect sees these trends emerging, particularly in Grand Figeac. “We have had a lot of requests for the transformation of barns. With the PLUi (Intercommunal Local Urban Planning Plan), we are in fact reducing the possibility of building in very diffuse territories. With the reduction of open surfaces, the questions of rehabilitation and change of destination are therefore questions of the present and the future.

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Next hours in Figeac at the Grand Figeac headquarters on rue Germain Petitjean on Friday afternoons February 7, March 7, April 4, May 16 and June 6.
Contact: CAUE du Lot Cité Bessières in Cahors, tel. : 05 65 30 14 35.
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