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Technical advice<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Nous accompagnons les communaut\u00e9s vers des modes d\u2019habiter durables, justes et r\u00e9silients. Notre travail s\u2019appui sur le diagnostic des cultures constructives locales, l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de terrain, la recherche et l\u2019innovation pour limiter l\u2019impact environnemental du b\u00e2timent, pr\u00e9server les patrimoines b\u00e2tis et renforcer l\u2019autonomie des populations.<\/p>\n

Together with the local actors, we develop architectural solutions that are adapted to climate, social and cultural challenges. We support the local skills, we document the know-how, we value heritage and we contribute to the evolution of the legal frameworks for more responsible construction practices. This collaborative approach enables to co-design innovative responses to contemporary challenges such as access to housing, climate change or resource scarcity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Dissemination \/ Trainings<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Since its creation, CRAterre disseminates knowledges on local building cultures and its evolutions, combining pedagogical tools, practical workshops, exhibitions, professional trainings, publications and seminars. This diversity of dissemination methods enables to reach a large public in order to reinforce the skills and to inspire new practices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Research<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Our researches focus on in depth analysis of the building cultures in close collaboration with the local stakeholders in order to revitalize their assets of common sense and sobriety. Our work focuses as much on the organization of territories as on the properties of available materials and techniques, with the objective to apply these knowledges to contemporary architecture and to the improvement of the built environments.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Trois p\u00f4les d\u2019intervention<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Habitat<\/a><\/span><\/h2><\/div>
\"Habitat\"<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Materials<\/a><\/span><\/h2><\/div>
\"Craterre\"<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Heritage<\/a><\/span><\/h2><\/div>
\"CRAterre\"<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Project approach<\/strong><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Our approach aims for a site-specific architecture. It is based on a diagnosis of the territory, in particular the study of the local building cultures, their actual dynamics and the future directions they seem to take. It establishes a coherence between concepts, methods and objectives while facilitating the active participation of the stakeholders \u2013 institutional, professional and of the community. It links practice, research and training, each continually improving the other. Designed in cooperation with the local actors, it reinforces the resilience and encourages accessible and reproducible projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Intervention methodology<\/strong><\/h3><\/div>

The projects are developed following a methodology that has been approved by CRAterre since many years. It is based on a cycle of four complementary phases, repeated as many times as necessary to continuously improve the carried out actions and refine the answers provided to the populations. This iterative progression also helps to raise the level of skills of the local partners until they are fully autonomous in the management and evolution of the projects.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>

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At the heart of this approach, the co-design with the local actors \u2014 inhabitants, authorities, civil society organisations, etc. \u2014 guarantees the relevance and the appropriation of solutions. In this way, the projects aim to maximise the profits for the communities, by favoring accessible and reproducible techniques that are adapted to their resources.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>