Sustainable development is one of the main challenges of the XXIth century, and architecture and city planning are also taking the road of eco-responsibility.

The Habiter Ecologique exhibit presents a series of projects that combine the development of eco-responsible housing and a global approach.
The exhibit features three main parts. As an introduction, Constat et Démarche traces the milestones in ecological thought in France and the world since 1900. It also describes the major natural catastrophes caused by human activity and stresses the main issues resulting from the exponential population increase and rampant urbanization.

The second part, La Transcription en Architectures, is dedicated to the pioneers of eco-responsible architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Pierre Lajus, etc.), and then offers a panorama of current practices across the world and in France. The international projects presented were chosen for their originality and the diversity of their approaches: energy savings, raw materials (see the earth school designed by the Austrian Anna Heringer in Bangladesh) and recycled materials (the house built with license plates by the Americans Rural Studio). The French approach is then presented, from the pioneers of solar and bioclimatic architecture of the 1970’s-1980’s to the present.

Finally, the exhibit ends on an optimistic and encouraging note with, on the one hand, the answers to the calls for ideas made by the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine to architects and students, and on the other, a forward-looking review of the initiatives, projects and achievements that blaze a trail to a more sustainable architecture. For example, you can discover the first French "zero energy" school at Limeil-Brevannes in the Paris Region: designed by the Goldstein architectural firm, this building produces as much energy as it consumes.

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