The Festival des Architectures Vives aims to raise public awareness of the wide range of architecture. It seeks not only to highlight the work of a younger generation of architects, landscape architects, urban planners but also to discover unexpected urban areas.
Two targets are set. On the one hand, open to visitors during the festival these landmarks. On the other hand, through the intervention of the creative teams present a work specific to each place and reveal an intimate relationship between contemporary architecture and heritage sites. This Festival proposes during 2 weeks, 18 sites where the facilities takes place on the thematic «Sensuality». These achievements ephemeral small-scale, takes possession of the premises during the festival.
The project proposed by Festival des Architectures Vives takes place in two distinct sites.
In Montpellier, in the heart of the historic city, is offered a path, an architectural discovery in the heart of the city. This path connects mansions and courtyards, which mostly private are not visible to visitors.
Then La Grande Motte is proposed discovery of a contemporary architectural heritage that is revisited, reinstated and even rewritten by young architects. Thus, the City of La Grande Motte, and more specifically the architecture of Jean Balladur, who has been recognized as «Heritage of the twentieth century» is put into perspective by these ephemeral installations. An architectural journey takes place ranging from facilities and explores the city.
Festival des Architectures Vives invites teams composed of architects but also landscape and urban planners to make in situ interventions freely designed.