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Although environmental laws have followed one another since 1975, it was only on January 2022 that the building industry moved from thermal regulation to multi-criteria environmental regulation RE2020. The latter accelerates the decarbonization of the building industry, reduces greenhouse gases and improves comfort. The architect must then make a change to a low-carbon architecture whose mission is to reduce the footprint of the building throughout its life: from its design to its use, including its building phase, the use and transport of materials, sites logistics, but also the reduction of consumption necessary for its uses.

Unisson(s) movement invites project management and all design professions to work together, in a holistic approach in order to invent a low-carbon architecture revisiting the relationship with nature!

Read the op ed on Le Monde

The increase in prices and the scarcity of materials have been creating strong tension for several months on the building market, preventing construction players from guaranteeing their deadlines and costs. Some players underline the need to set up new operations allowing revisable prices. An inevitable outcome for many. Maud Caubet explains as follows: “Mechanically, the profession will not be able to escape it and the clients will soon have no choice”.

Find the full article on Le journal du Grand Paris

While the Unisson(s) movement was officially launched during the Sibca, Dominique Boré, General Commissioner of Unisson(s) and Laurent Morel, President of the IFPEB, were at the microphone of Luc-Etienne Rouillard Lafond on the set of BiTV.

The opportunity for them to come back to the initiatives of the movement and to explain how the emergence of a new low-carbon architecture, revisiting our relationship to resources and living organisms, can be the basis for the evolution of the challenges of environmental transition.

An interview to be found on Business Immo

After a first joint operation on the hotel Le Chantry Bordeaux, EXTENDAM and VICARTEM sign a new investment with the Little Palace hotel’s acquisition, a 4-star hotel with 53 rooms, in the 3^rd district of Paris. Located in the very city centre of Paris, near the Silicon Sentier, a bunch of museums and touristic spots, it will bring business and leisure customers. Built in 1911, the hotel is wall and funds transfered to EXTENDAM and VICARTEM. It will become a real catalyst of creative energy, an intuitive and life-enhancing place.

Read the article on Cf News Immo

Launched at the first edition of Sibca, a low-carbon real estate international fair, Unisson(s) movement presented its ambitions on Friday afternoon. After the broadcast of a trailer for a documentary directed by Maud Caubet and Annabelle Ledoux, Laurent Morel, President of the IFPEB, explained as follows: “We want to bring together the players in the design, building, planning, landscaping and industry in order to encourage a new architecture, the basis for the evolution of new challenges in a changing ecosystem, to design, build and renovate major urban projects and buildings of tomorrow, in a spirit of sharing solutions”.

During an interview with Jacques Paquier, Dominique Boré, Curator of the movement and Honorary President of the Maison d’Architecture Île-de-France, added: “This new architecture will deal more with biodiversity to allow nature to take back strength and allow to presere the living. No one has yet described the field of architectural solutions for low carbon and living things. This is the ambition of Unison(s) movement, that the real estate industry, guided by architects and in an exemplary way, is undertaking this “big shift” that all human activities must embrace”.

Unisson(s) thus wishes to encourage architects and real estate players not to consider RE2020 and all environmental regulations as constraints but as an opportunity to invent a new low-carbon aesthetic.

Read the article by Jacques Paquier on Le Journal du Grand Paris

Maud Caubet and Les Grandes Idées are delighted to have presented the teaser of the documentary Unisson(s) during the SIBCA last Friday. Many thanks to Unisson(s) team for their trust.

The Unisson(s) movement, bringing together the players of design, building, planning and landscape, explores solutions and ideas for a renewed architectural writing, a low carbon architecture, an architecture of the living. Its objective: to accelerate the reform of practices and together inspire a new imagination.

Feel free to join the movement by signing the manifesto: https://bit.ly/3SGNJzq

Directed by Maud Caubet, directing and producing, Les Grandes Idées, on the script, Olivier Sabatier, filmmaker, Félix Roudier and Victor Dussap, illustrators and YOTTA, post-producer, the documentary is part of the itinerant system of debates and design thinking workshops of the Unisson(s) movement.

See you on November 16^th at the Maison de l’architecture Île-de-France for the broadcast of the documentary in full version during the first event of the movement!

Watch the teaser

Created by the two lovers of architecture and design: Françoise Novel and Franck Mallez, Yourse is a sustainable solution for renting or purchasing designer furnitures. Yourse offers a new furnishing experience for individuals and professionals, making accessible the timeless creations of the 20th and 21st century. How do they do?  Thanks to a leasing or purchase circular service for design furniture. By this way, Yourse aims to share, over the long term, the use of sustainable and premium pieces, designed to last and realized in the rules of art!

You fall for a chair conceived by a famous designer but you can’t buy it? It is now possible to first rent it and then buy it at a reduced price or change it for another piece, at the end of your contract.

To learn more, visit Yourse website

Ideally located opposite Angers train station, the Hôtel Univers is now under Younight Hospitality’s management.  As part of its repositioning, the hotel will be renovated and will become a place for hospitality, modernity and innovation. His 10-employee team remains on board. Work will start early next year.

“One of our core objectives is to move the hotel upmarket, without necessary aiming to pass it from 2-star to 3-star category. We want to convey a “feel at home”atmosphere and a design that procures a real identity” underlines Romain Gowhari, CEO of Younight Hospitality.

Find the article in Ouest France

In a column for Archistorm, Maud Caubet calls for reconsidering the profession of architect as a commitment, a lever for environmental and social transition taking into account the existing and the future.

To draw as many people into the action, architecture must be thought of as a player in storytelling and poetry. She also recalls the crucial role of architecture teaching to revalorize the profession, to bring it towards more equity and to adopt the new reflexes of consuming less and better without forgetting the logic of an improvement of life.

She calls for to be brave and transform the best wishes into action.

Find the column on Archistorm

Selecting a wide variety of agencies in its special issue, NDA magazine paints a portrait of Rectoverso architectes. Multi-subject, the agency works on architecture, graphic design and even interior design projects. A good example is Face Cachée, a sober office restoration project on the outside, full of surprises on the inside. Each floor is bathed in a specific atmosphere: seaside, bohemian chic or even gaming, allowing employees to live a unique experience while navigating between each universe!

A beautiful portrait to be found in the 50^th issue of NDA