Evening presentation of projects by student architects from the Chaillot school at the Amphi on June 25
The Amphi welcomed 48 student-architects from the DSA (Specialization and Advanced Diploma) in architecture and heritage from the Center des Hautes Etudes de Chaillot in Paris, more commonly known as the Chaillot school.
Students from the Chaillot school came to present their end-of-study project this Tuesday, June 25 in the lecture hall. Each of the eight groups had 15 minutes to defend their project. The students went to Sens four times between 2022 and 2024 (one week per university semester) to study eight buildings: the Sainte-Mathie church, the former Sainte-Paule school, the Saint-Pierre le Rond church , the Jacobins parking lot and island, the Municipal Theater, the stable wing of the archbishop’s palace, the Grande Juiverie and the old Saint-Louis mill. “In Sens, there is incredible potential” confides school director Jean-Marc Zuretti. “It was a bit of an opportunity to work on cities that are of a reasonable size. Working in large metropolises generally interests us little”.
The students first carried out analytical work based on library archive documents and photographic funds to study the structure of the city. Then they carried out building surveys. The school director Jean-Marc Zuretti hopes that “these projects could be used to imagine transformations, perhaps imagine how we make housing in the city center rehabilitable and how we put spaces back into the city for artisanal activities”The mayor of Sens, Paul-Antoine de Carville, described the initiative as “breath of fresh air”. “Their work acts as a revealer of hidden potentialities offering new perspectives for our common future” added the elected official who is a priori open to new ideas for the development of the city.
Floriane BOIVIN
