The unlimited use of energy in the 20th century, made possible by fossil fuels, and the easy access to good health provided by vaccination and antibiotics, dissociated material and natural reasons from social and human ones, as if the latter were only forged and evolved in an ideal world without material ties. The coronavirus crisis of 2020 and global warming, which since 2022 has manifested itself fully in the now scorching daily life of the West, as well as the energy crisis of this winter 2022-2023, mark the end of this modern dissociation. They reminded us of illness, heat and cold in our homes, the importance of ventilation to dissipate aerosol contamination, the importance of thermal insulation to reduce CO2 emissions, the convergence of aesthetic and thermal choices to reduce heat in summer and cold in winter, the concordance of the social and the climatic.

This new material reality of the social is at the heart of the work being carried out in our Bachelor of Interior Architecture workshop at HEAD, which during the spring 2023 semester focused on redefining today's workplaces (industry and offices), bringing together the question of physical comfort and social comfort, but even more so on inventing energetic meeting places, dynamic and productive atmospheres, social and human qualities in the natural reality of temperatures, air flows and light. The physical qualities - warmth in winter, coolness in summer, natural light all the time, but without overheating in summer, noise-free, chemically sound indoor environments - are the source of a spatial and decorative reconfiguration, of a new interior architecture where thermal, acoustic, indoor air quality and light will be forced to invent the new human work environments of the 21st century.

The site of the future building is in Juvigny, Haute-Savoie, France, and will contain around 2,000 m2 of offices and 3,000 m2 of factory space.