AUTOMANIAAA !
I am an architect and researcher, graduated from ENSA Versailles in 2024. My work explores the intersection of materiality, ecology, and experimentation, driven by a strong conviction: architecture can transform the debris of modernity into constructive and narrative resources.
My diploma project focused on the reuse of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) in architecture. It received the jury’s highest distinction and a special “Research” mention at the French Steel Competition. But beyond awards, this research grounded me in a clear position: to build from excess rather than extraction, to challenge norms instead of reproducing them.
This project doesn’t start from scratch. Materials have been identified, sites explored, partners mobilised (ELV centres, fablabs, circular economy professionals). What it needs now is a collective framework — to grow, to be transmitted, and to evolve through contact with other practices.
I pursue this work within a research-through-creation methodology, where making precedes theory and practice becomes a form of knowledge. I’m interested in open pedagogical formats (workshops, labs, publications) and in collaborative approaches that activate ecological and political narratives from within the material itself.
I believe new ideas emerge from the margins — in the hybridity of disciplines and the circulation of situated knowledge. This research is designed to be shared, reactivated, repurposed — by designers, architects, artists, engineers.
Joining LINA means anchoring this work within a fertile, critical and action-oriented network. It also means following a persistent intuition: that architecture can — and must — contribute to transforming how we build, imagine, and inhabit the world.
AUTOMANIAAA is an ongoing research-creation project that explores the automobile as a material to think with, repurpose, and build from. Opposing extractivist logics, it proposes to treat end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) not as dead ends, but as new starting points — gateways to alternative ways of dwelling, building, and making.
With a deliberate reversal of perspective, AUTOMANIAAA seeks to transform one of the most polluting icons of modernity into a vector for architectural decarbonisation. What if the automobile, now a universal form of waste, became an architectural resource? What if its components — chassis, windows, seats, plastics — carried within them the seeds of a critical and poetic language? What if architecture could be written from excess rather than from extraction? What if its materials — chassis, windows, seats, plastics — carried the seeds of a critical and poetic language?
Ironically, one of the most polluting symbols of modernity could become a tool for decarbonising architecture.
The project was initiated in an academic context (architecture diploma) and has since led to several low-tech experiments blending reuse, design, sculpture, and site-specific construction. It combines hands-on, field-based investigation (disassembly, cataloguing, prototyping) with a critical reflection on norms, technical imaginaries, and ecological transition. It has been recognised through various awards and showcased across cultural events (talks, publications, workshops). Today, the project is ready to expand to a broader, collective, European scale.
AUTOMANIAAA proposes a speculative yet practical ecology of industrial reuse — generic, adaptable, and context-responsive — at the intersection of architecture, art, research, and design. It contributes to a shifting spatial culture in which building becomes an act of joyful, critical, and deeply political transformation.