Valentin Bourdon
valentin.bourdon@epfl.ch +41 21 693 87 49 http://valentinbourdon.fr/
Citizenship: Française
EPFL ENT-R HRC-GE
BP 4136 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://habitat.epfl.ch/
EPFL ENT-R HRC-GE
BP 4136 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://lab-u.epfl.ch/
EPFL ENT-R HRC-GE
BP 4136 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 87 49
Office:
BP 4129
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Fields of expertise
Architecture
Common space
Collective housing
Urban morphology
Urban and territorial design
Common space
Collective housing
Urban morphology
Urban and territorial design
Biography
Valentin Bourdon is an architect, postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant. He obtained the french architectural diploma in 2013 from the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est at Marne-la-Vallée under the direction of Jacques Lucan, and completed his PhD at EPFL in 2020, under the supervision of Luca Ortelli. Since September 2021, he coordinates the Habitat Research Center at EPFL. Involved in the studies of the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation between 2017 and 2021, he also contributes in the supervision of its Housing Studio - Project Theory and Criticism for architecture bachelor. During his doctoral research, he benefited of an academic stay at Metrolab Brussels in 2019 with the support of the SNSF, and published multiple scientific and non-academic publications.His arrival in Switzerland and return to the academic world take place after a thorough professional experience in the parisian office MGAU Michel Guthmann Architecture Urbanisme. From 2010 to 2016, he participed to the majority of its developed projects and supervised several of them, both collective dwellings projects and urban projects.
Research
His research areas are related to the understanding of recent evolutions in housing architecture, major urban trajectories and project tools.His doctoral research consisted of the study of architectural principles related to the theme of housing, which the current relevance of the notion of "common" invites to reassess. It brings together in the same perspective the understanding of the epistemological questions posed by the common, as well as the contemporary relationship between city and housing. Such a research project contributed to compensate for the delay taken by the architectural discipline in relation to other human sciences, in the enunciation of theoretical appropriations of the common. The publication of his thesis is planned for the end of 2021, with the support of the SNSF.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Publications
Citizen Think Tanks: co-designing post-pandemic housing futures
27th IAPS Conference. Global Challenges, Local Impacts: Rethinking governance, sustainability and consumption in light of climate change, Online, Lisboa, Portugal, July 5-8, 2022.La ville en communs - Récits d'urbanisme
Genève: MétisPresses.Au passage d'un pré. Contre-projet du quartier des Cherpines à Genève, entre nature et urbanité
2022Mon logement à l’épreuve du confinement : Quelles orientations pour l’après ?
2021-07-12Le Fémilistère. Une coopérative d’habitation féministe à Cheseaux
2021La cohabitation des temps. Entre ville et campagne: infrastructure et chambres à Sugnens (VD) [C. Di Martino et M. Ishii on développé deux projets séparés]
2021EXIT URBS - Logement collectif à Romanel-sur-Lausanne [CDi Martino et A. Ishii ont développé deux projets séparés]
2021Les Seuils du Commun. Logements et Jardins à Porto
2021Projeter le vide, revaloriser l'espace public à Echallens
2021Résistance programmatique ou repli stratégique. Hybridation et déménagement de l'immeuble de la rue du Simplon n° 22-26
2021Cooperative or undifferentiated: Two visions for housing
2020-11-21. AHRA 2020: Housing and the City 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research AssociationHousing and the City, Nottingham, United Kingdom, November 19-21, 2020.The Neighbourhood Unit. The relevance of an architectural tool
The Terms of Habitation: Retheorizing the Architecture of Housing, Jerusalem, Israel(online conference), November 9-12, 2020.The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool
2020-11-09. The Terms of Habitation, Haifa, Israel, November 9-12, 2020.D'une institution privée à une vie de quartier. Requalification de l'Institut Mont-Olivet et son parc à Lausanne en un nouveau fragment de ville
2020"A bigger garden". Extension de l'école d’art et de design de Weissensee, Berlin-Pankow, Allemagne
2020Veyrier 2050: le commun de l'habitat et de l'agriculture
2020Le Palais Social, Contre-projet pour l’île Seguin
2020Les formes architecturales du Commun
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8550.Les formes architecturales du commun : trajectoires et perspectives
Séminaire Uses & Spaces, Bruxelles, Belgique, December 9, 2019.Living an ordinary common
Dia a Dia - un quotidien pour la 12e Biennale d'Architecture de São Paulo. 2019-10-30.Does the Homogeneous City Belong to the Past?
Urban Planning. 2019-09-30. DOI : 10.17645/up.v4i3.2009.De l’Existenzminimum à l’existence commune
5e Journée d'études Bernardo Secchi, Rolex Learning Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, September 24, 2019.Espace Collectif et Bien Commun, Mise à l’épreuve d’une transposition interdisciplinaire
Contour. 2019-09-12. DOI : 10.6666/contour.v0i4.89.Quels horizons pour des communs agro-urbains ?
Dessiner des (éco)systèmes agro-urbains résilients, Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Maroc, September 9-10, 2019.Introducing the architectural values of the Common
The City as a Commons, Pavia, Italy, September 2-4, 2019.Introducing the architectural values of the Common
2019-09-02. The City as a Commons, University of Pavia, September 2-4, 2019.Une éthique du projet pour la ville du XXIe siècle ?
Revue française d'éthique appliquée. 2019-08-29. DOI : 10.3917/rfeap.007.0010.Quels horizons pour des communs agro-urbains ?
2019-08-27. Dessiner des (éco)systèmes agro-urbains résilients. Urbanisme, architecture et agriculture au défi du changement climatique, Agadir, Maroc, September 9-10, 2019.Arlecchinata a Porta Volta. La mise en scène du jardin, Milan (I)
2019Une ritournelle muette.Des refuges le long du canal de Garonne (F)
2019300 logements pour densifier le centre ville (Flon, Lausanne)
2019Re-imagining the collective space
2018-02-07. 9th International PhD Seminar in Urbanism and Urbanization - U&U, Ghent, Belgium, February 7-9, 2018. p. 41-46.Re-imagining the collective space
9th International PhD Seminar in Urbanism and Urbanization - U&U, Ghent, Belgium, February 7-9, 2018.The Tragedy of the Megastructure
Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA). 2018. DOI : 10.6092/issn.2611-0075/8523.Espaces collectifs et communs traditionnels, Une extension architecturale du champ des communs ?
International PhD Seminar - Comparing Habitats, Morges, Switzerland, June 12-14, 2017.Teaching & PhD
Courses
UE C : Habitat and society
By articulating theoretical and architectural knowledge with socio-political knowledge, the UE aims to build an imaginary around the productive habitat.