Workshop Urban Climates at ENSA Nantes 2023

The master workshop Ambiances and urban forms of the year 2023 focused on exploring the climatic dimensions of architecture and public space. Starting from their own experiences of urban climate, they traced a path that started or ended at the ENSA Nantes building and explored climatic gradients in relation to different architectural and urban designs. 26 students, working in 6 groups, had the opportunity to participate in climate measurement campaigns with our climate cart. They then learned how to import and visualise such specific data in QGIS (cartographic approach) and Rhino (3D approach). In parallel, they also learned how to analyse and interpret climate records at the body level and their relationship to space and time. Finally, they worked together to create a representation of the climatic experience of space that was tailored to each group’s goals. In doing so, we strongly encouraged students to explore parallel survey methods to create richer formats that evidence the global experience of space in which climate plays a crucial role.

You can see the results of their work hereafter.

Students: BELAYACHI Nada, BIDAL Enza, BODIN Léo, BOUET Thibault, CALVO BERENGUER Victor, CARRE Tom
CHARDON Anaïs, CORBO Pierfrancesco, DE LA PUERTA CONSTANTE Nuria, DELECRIN Claire, DESIGNE Fleur
DIANI Nada, ETTIEN Jean-Martin, FICHAUX Lea, GANFON Christamen, GIBOIRE Manon, IRISARRI PIÑERA Victor, LANGLAIS Servane, LE Mink Khoi, LEDRU Anne, MAGNIER Gabriel, MARY Julie, MEIGNEN Leny, MERCIER Matthis, ROLDÁN RODRÍGUEZ Alejandro and VILLANUEVA PINTO Daniela Patricia.

Lecturers: Ignacio REQUENA, Pooria BANADIAM, Guillaume CHAUVAT, Daniel SIRET, Thomas LEDUC, Pascal JOANNE.

Author: Ignacio REQUENA