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Let’s Reflect ON THE PAST to Make the Best Choices

FOR THE FUTURE by Suzanne Belaieff

The interplay between OUTSIDE and INSIDE forms already begun, and which can be analysed as a sustainability objectives and environmental targets.
a dialectic. It is as clear-cut as YES and NO, and so shift from contractual conflict to regulation, from The qualification process therefore leaves planners
determines everything. Unintentionally we create plan to project, points to a real reshaping process, at a crossroads.
an image base that controls all POSITIVE and particularly within the urban realm. This approach Telling the story of an experience in relation to
NEGATIVE thought. emerged as a double challenge to the planned and a past or future situation is a means of giving
For instance the philosopher, with the OUTSIDE and centralised urbanism of the 1960’s. By aiming to be meaning to the knowledge acquired and the action
the INSIDE, contemplates “being and non-being” like closer to the ground this approach has led to a real that mobilises it. Narration is a way of learning
“OPEN and CLOSED”. “The here and the beyond” revival! (Law of Solidarity) from action by putting it back into context and into
echoes the inside and the outside: everything takes Yes, local resident residents can be consulted! the dynamics of the operations. The possibility of
shape, even infinity! The architect is no exception! As But more often than not, they are excluded from reusing knowledge in a cooperative situation gives
far as he’s concerned it’s inner space/outer space! the planning process. This opens up a whole new value to an experience makes it a transactional
The examination of trades and skills, the analysis field of study, exchange and experimentation for object. Experience necessitates negotiation. If left
of the players and professionals involved in shaping urban planning researchers and practitioners. unattended experience turns into formal know-how.
urban areas and built-up spaces, began to make Architects are concerned by the environmental Experience based knowledge is essential
headway in the first half of the 70’s, through 75. quality of building products, but the Sustainable for cooperation within critical movements of
Periods of intense activity, or conversely crises are Development Plan was not published until 2002. architectural output. To act upon space, one must
times that challenge both players and researchers. “The nature of the benchmark guides the design rely on a legitimate conception of the profession.
The cultural role of urban and architectural spaces of the programme first and foremost”, with priority Architects must retain intellectual and economic
and their symbolic and functional qualities depend given to the choice of targets and the performance power in the building markets, given the image
on the knowledge, strategies and actions of those levels to be achieved: without a well-informed project associated with architectural design. Engineers,
who define, design, build and manage them. owner capable of guiding the project management by virtue of their training, and urban planning
The construction of the city and the objectives of team, architects and engineers, there is no chance professionals are faced with the need to rethink
public transport projects restructure urban practices of success. The power of project owners have their work. The aim is to introduce the notion of
and landscapes, creating new public spaces. This “generally contrasts with their decision-making ambience, not just comfort, into building design
encourages a renewal of sustainable oriented design power”. The competent project owner is the one and urban planning, in order to convey our identity.
practices in built up areas. We are witnessing the who succeeds in transmitting the expectations of The most recent additions are “lighting” designers
emergence of numerous specialist fields similar to non-experts to experts! The architectural profession and “acousticians”.
the traditional roles such as architects, engineers has the traditional function of general designer, Sustainable development is ushering in a new era
and urban planners. However, the demand for public guarantor and project leader. of action guided by values such as nature, time and
participation raises questions about the existing In the paradigm of sustainability in construction, new equity. Expert solutions are being redefined.
skills and the mechanisms that are likely to link them. frames of reference guide programming, design and
The renewal of urban planning practices that has implementation, starting with the priority choices of Extracts: The Making of the City: BIAU and TAPI
The Poetics of Space: Bachelard

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