"Renovation Means Imagination, Too": Second-Year Interdisciplinary Jury

This interdisciplinary project, developed by the teaching team, centers on a dual-purpose renovation: a luxury fashion boutique coexisting with temporary housing for people in the process of reintegration. It offers hands-on experience that is rarely available to second-year students.

Thanks to a partnership with the SNCF, our interior architecture students worked on a real-world railway site and, on May 4, 2026, presented their renovation projects to a jury under conditions that mirrored professional practice. At the heart of this project was the Vaux-sur-Seine train station, the physical framework for an ambitious interior renovation project carried out throughout the semester.

This project would not have been possible without the trust placed in us by the SNCF, represented by Naïma Lalaoui, Deputy Head of the Real Estate Development Department and Head of the Development Division at the Île-de-France Stations Executive Directorate, who enabled the faculty and students to visit the Vaux-sur-Seine station and access the site’s official plans. This unprecedented collaboration transformed an academic exercise into a genuine professional experience.

Thank you to the faculty members involved in this interdisciplinary project: Henri Texier (Design), Stéphanie Le Tiec (Lighting), Fabory Mara (Perspective & Representation), Anna Maria Sienicka (Methodology), Quentin Petit Dit Duhal (History of Art and Architecture), Fitriani Ratmaja (AutoCAD), Andréa Pellerin (Spatial Design Project), and Ana Zatezalo (Spatial Scenography)—eight disciplinary perspectives working together on a single project. The entire initiative was coordinated by Sylvie Cedrin-Felix, Educational Coordinator.

Each team worked on the renovation of the train station by devising a plan rooted in reality, combining a major fashion house with a vulnerable population:

The presentations were held at the Sébastien Mercier Campus. Each student presented their approach—from site analysis to the final spatial proposal—demonstrating a high level of project maturity and the ability to defend their choices before a demanding jury.