Papers by Jean-Pierre Chupin
This research paper is an investigation of ‘design for sustainability’ as an emerging aesthetic p... more This research paper is an investigation of ‘design for sustainability’ as an emerging aesthetic paradigm crossing the main disciplines concerned with design thinking, be it at the scales of architecture, landscape, and urban design. Our main objective is to better understand the way designers go beyond current injunctions of environmental norms in order to maintain a creative balance between ethics and aesthetics in their projects. This aesthetic tension between form and content is not understood as a new style, but rather as a new framework for designing more sustainable environments. Because competitions are inherently meant to stimulate and judge the qualities of design proposals through a collective process of evaluation, we studied and analysed a series of design competitions organized in Canada between 2003 and 2013. The projects submitted to competitions during this decade revealed a significant amount of convergent elements of formal and material solutions. Through a series ...
Whether seeking out forms, ideas, principles, concepts or images, biology appears as a model and ... more Whether seeking out forms, ideas, principles, concepts or images, biology appears as a model and an inexhaustible source for designers at various scales. What do designers strive for when they wave the flag of life and what do they think they will find in the sciences that make it an object of knowledge? Conversely, may we say that biologists demonstrate an equivalent and reciprocal appetite for contemporary architecture? A comparison of the contrasting points of view of three historians namely, Peter Collins, Philip Steadman and George Hersey, whose works span from 1960 to 2000, permits us in the first instance to illustrate the different positions provoked by the influence of biology on ideas in architecture, be that with regards to adhering to, or opposing the phenomenon, or in terms of propagating it in all forms of construction. From the simple formal reference to animal or vegetable kingdoms, all the way to the more unusual transfers of biological and genetic models, the pract...
This book comprises a series of 22 case studies from renowned experts and new scholars in the fie... more This book comprises a series of 22 case studies from renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organizing, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world. These richly documented contributions revolve around a few questions that can be summarized in a two-fold critical interrogation: How can design competitions — these historical democratic devices, both praised and dreaded by designers — be considered laboratories for the production of environmental design quality, and, ultimately, for the renewing of culture and knowledge ?
Geographica Helvetica, 2011
Dans cette orientation, la démarche architecturale est proposée comme un temps de recherche perso... more Dans cette orientation, la démarche architecturale est proposée comme un temps de recherche personnelle et de réflexion à l'orée du projet final. À la différence de la plupart des orientations de la maîtrise, celle-ci ne se présente pas comme une spécialisation professionnelle, mais plutôt comme une ouverture à des thématiques contemporaines situées au coeur même des enjeux disciplinaires. La pédagogie proposée vise à permettre aux futurs architectes de se donner une démarche historique et théorique fondée sur la recherche en architecture et sur le développement d'une attitude critique et réflexive dans la pratique du projet. • une scène à l'échelle urbaine et un casino harmonieusement intégré au site (conçu avec un souci écologique et muni d'un toit vert) • un spa submergé sous une cascade d'eau et un parc accueillant (outre le chapiteau du Cirque du Soleil) toutes sortes de festivités • un bassin Peel mis en valeur pour les sports nautiques et un quai des artistes, dédié aux arts et à la culture • sans oublier : la reconquête et la décontamination d'un site délaissé, ainsi que la revitalisation d'un quartier défavorisé. Le tout devant constituer une « nouvelle destination internationale ». École d'architecture / Faculté de l'aménagement / Université de Montréal
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This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field... more This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organizing, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world.
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link to Potential Architecture at Issuu: http://issuu.com/potentialarchitecturebooks/docs/978-0-9921317-0-8-redux
link to Potential Architecture at Issuu: http://issuu.com/potentialarchitecturebooks/docs/978-0-9921317-0-8-redux