For frugal and creative architecture

Faced with the climate crisis, the ‘Manifesto for happy and creative frugality in architecture and urban and rural planning’ proposes concrete solutions.
Drafted in January 2018 by Alain Bornarel, Philippe Madec and Dominique Gauzin-Müller, the text has already attracted 15,700 signatories from 90 countries, creating a truly international movement for a paradigm shift in the building sector.

Frugality is the fair use of the fruits of the earth. The approach covers four areas of action: the rational use of land; the reduction of energy consumption; the priority given to biosourced, geosourced and reused building materials from the region; and a holistic and collaborative design and implementation process.

The common objective is an architecture that is more respectful of the living world, that makes the most of local resources and know-how, and that favours robust technical solutions while seeking a balance between tradition and modernity.
There are already many examples of this in France and abroad.

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