Félicien Pecquet-Caumeil

Félicien Pecquet-Caumeil is an architect and urban planner, a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (DEA), and the École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est (DSA in architecture and urban planning and HMONP). He also has a keen interest in audiovisual and scenographic media, which he believes are relevant tools for designers.

After gaining multidisciplinary experience at Atelier Georges, he co-founded the agency meat architectures & territoires with seven other partners. Winners of Europan 14 (2017), they joined the Echelle 1 incubator in 2021. From architectural project management to territorial strategy, meat is committed to transforming living situations in a variety of contexts (Massif Central, Normandy, Grand-Est, Overseas France, Spain, Mexico, Croatia). The Overseas Housing Renewal Project is a continuation of the study they conducted in the commune of Le Prêcheur in Martinique while they were training for their DSA (specialized studies diploma) in architecture and urban planning in 2016. Since the issue is one of adapting to coastal retreat, the aim is to experiment with new forms of living that are suited to the tropical environment.

He is writing a thesis under the supervision of Sébastien Marot, which aims to articulate theoretical questions based on practical cases. Insularity, spatial recomposition, bioclimatic housing, Caribbean and metropolitan interdependencies, Creolity, local resources, constructive cultures: through the different scales of the project processes, the aim is to examine climate change as a vector for the renewal of local cultures. Between operational reality and theoretical exploration, this research is part of the partnership-based teaching and research chair “The coastline as a project territory” within the OCS-AUSser laboratory.