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UNISSON(S) movement is committed to uniting and promoting all city stakeholders involved in an active and radical change for low-carbon architecture and living things. While the Earth has experienced many climate changes, the one it is currently experiencing is the result of human activity. It is thus possible to act actively by changing collective and individual habits. It is then necessary to invent an architecture of the ecological shift in order to respond to these challenges.

For Dominique Boré, Honorary President of the Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France and General Commissioner of UNISSON(S) movement, this new architecture must “be humble while being ambitious”. It is an architecture that shows boldness in the use of materials, reinvents uses and habits, that takes into account comfort of the livings. It is an architecture taking the new standards and regulations as a new basis for creation and creativity allowing to design new desirable imaginaries that our society needs in order to accelerate the shift.

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Papa Outang: the spread that saves the forest

Mouvement Impact France reasserts its commitment to the economic and social transition and hopes that the Finance Bill 2023 (PLF 2023) will be the cornerstone of the government’s ecological planning.

Following PLF 2023 introduction by government, the movement recognizes the positive impact of a number of new legislations such as the end of export guarantees in the fossil fuel sector but regrets a very small consideration of climate issues.

Mouvement Impact France said: “With a view to a better management of public funds and prevention of social and environmental risks inherent to the current economic situation, it is necessary that the amounts injected by the State to support French companies also lead them to align their strategy towards less carbon and fairer business models”.

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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”.

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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.

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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

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