Cultural Dossier Title

From Latent Place to Relational Organism: Regenerating a Building in Angoulême through an Architecture of the Living

Table of Contents

Introduction
Presentation of the abandoned building in Angoulême and the challenges of the project.

I. The Latent Place
I.1. A Central Building without Uses
I.2. Latency as Spatial and Social Rupture

II. Regeneration through living systems
II.1. The Building as a Relational Organism
II.2. Regenerating without Erasing or Romanticizing

Conclusion
Synthesis and opening toward the project The Hotel of the Living.