Emerging architects and designers present installations addressing impermanence at the 2022 Festival des Architectures Vives

One of Europe's most popular architectural festivals has just named the prize winners and special mentions of its 10-team, 5-day-long juried exhibition, which took place between June 14-19. Now in its sixteenth year, The Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) in Montpellier, France, assembles young designers from France and abroad, where they addressed this year's design theme, "impermanence."

According to its organizers, Elodie Nourrigat and Jacques Brion, “The purpose of the Festival des Architectures Vives is to raise public awareness of the broad field of architecture. It strives not only to highlight the work of a young generation of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners but also to discover unexpected urban territories [and] seeks to mark the spirits, to initiate a global reflection on architecture and its development in an existing urban context as well as to create a dialogue between contemporary creation and heritage.”

View this year's entries below. 

JURY PRIZE WINNER - BOUTEILLE A LA MER
By: KOLLEKTIV GESAMTKUNSTWERK - Killian Petracek, Anton V. Schmunk, Marcel Navid Sharifian, Kalieb Johanes, Anh Khoa Ngo, and Timur Zhigaylo (Belgium/Germany)

PUBLIC PRIZE WINNER - UNE ILLUSION D'ETERNITE
By: Malo Chabrol and Lucas Buti (France)

SPECIAL MENTION - FRAGMENT
By: Chiara Vigneri and François Chantier (Germany)

SPECIAL MENTION- CAELOSCOPE
By: Alek Rokosz (Poland)

SPECIAL MENTION - ENTRE DEUX VALSES AMBLA
By: Morgane Berson, Karen Le Corroller, and Maxime Molinari (France)

SPECIAL MENTION - L'ILLUSION DE LA PERMANENCE
By Atelier VYà - Achille Gauquelin and Timothée Bossard (France)

SPECIAL MENTION - PAYSAGE EN SUSPENS
By: BoON Architecture + mock up - Jean-Nicolas Bouchard, Julie Bradette, Hugo Thibeaudeau, Thierry Thibaudeau, and Véronique Côté (Canada)

SPECIAL MENTION - ÉCHANTILLON T22U.RFU
By: Slow architectures and Mobiterre - Olivia Frapolli, Sébastien Soulez-Larivière, Rachid Mizrahi, and Miki Nectoux (France)

SPECIAL MENTION - A MAUVAISE HERBE NE MEURT JAMAIS
By: Atelier Mobile - Cristiano Tosco, Miriam Quassolo, Corrado Scudellaro, Fabrizia Muci, and Francesco Pa (Italy)

SPECIAL MENTION - LE CHATEAU DE CARTES
By B.O - Joan Bardy and Jean Orliac (Spain)

Learn more about this year's festival installations here.