They are still architecture students and have already experienced climate change. “In Venice, during my Erasmus, I had my feet in the water every day to go to class in October”tracks Juliette Douillet, 22 years old. His partner Paul Facundo, 23, says that he spent a year in Guyana as part of the development project for Kourou, the fourth most populated city in the department: “The territory is exposed to various flood risks, I would like to help provide answers. » At his side, Mia Célestin, 30, lived through the Haiti earthquake in 2010: “That was what drove me to study architecture. Only the issue of risks was not really addressed in the initial training. That’s why I’m here today. »
This is the specialization and deepening diploma (DSA) Architecture and great risks from the National School of Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Belleville. The unique postgraduate diploma trains in prevention, crisis management, reconstruction and development.
The training takes place over four semesters and consists of courses, project and construction workshops, as well as a study trip. In late October, some of the DSA students went to Apice, an Italian town near Naples, whose center was abandoned after the 1980 earthquake. “They are working on the rehabilitation of a palace in this ghost town”explains Dominique Lerche, teacher at ENSA Paris-Belleville.
DSA educational director Cyrille Hanappe has just returned from Saint-Louis (Senegal). For ten days, his students worked on Guinaw Rail. “This neighborhood is being invaded little by little by water, the water table is rising inexorably, he explains. New houses are built with ever higher floors, the old ones are dedicated to desperate water management jobs. »
DSA studies are accessible to holders of a French or foreign architectural degree, but also to graduates of a master’s degree in another field, in particular in engineering, landscape architecture or urban planning. “Young people who choose this path have ecological sensitivity, many times they have a certain risk culture because they have experienced things… or they have simply already addressed the issue of risk as an option in their master’s degree”specifies Elodie Pierre.
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