Minimizing the use of non-renewable resources and the environmental impacts associated with building activity through the ecological management of water, biodiversity, and materials, favouring bio-based, geo-based, recycled, or reused components.
«Yet Bauart does not promote consumerism: because more is not necessarily better, economy of means is a core value and a source of inventive solutions, where necessity drives innovation. As early as 2000, Bauart developed a research project on the notion of the strictly essential and the contemporary use of wood. Its application materialised in the “Smallhouse” – a minimal housing concept that can be rapidly deployed on a small footprint and offers a simple and affordable response, particularly in situations of changing family circumstances.»
Delphine Désveaux, «Culture partagée et approche holistique» in ArchiSTORM, Hors-série 28, 2017.
«It is not only a matter of conceiving the sustainable city in purely conceptual terms, but of experiencing it concretely – by continuously developing new skills and identifying the necessary sociocultural connections on the ground. While this approach naturally contains a degree of idealism, architecture here manages to root itself in the tangible and thereby embrace its environmental responsibility – from the scale of the city down to the construction detail.»
Pascal Gontier, « La durabilité comme partie intégrante de l’art de bâtir » in ArchiSTORM, Hors-série 28, 2017.
«n all these projects, the use of wood ensures both energy and environmental performance – thanks to the use of a local resource, the strengthening of an endogenous production chain, and the careful management of thermal bridging. The solutions are even somewhat unconventional compared to standard practices, especially in a country where durability and stability are part of the foundational values.»
Béatrice Mariolle, «Penser en systèmes» in ArchiSTORM, Hors-série 28, 2017.
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