Yann Blanchi

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Présentation

Yann Blanchi is an architect and holds a PhD in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Heritage from Université Paris-Cité. She is currently a research engineer at the MHA Laboratory (Methods and History of Architecture). Her work on generative AI systems in the design and creation process is part of the AI4ARCHI Chair project (AI for Architectural and Urban Generative Design), which was awarded funding under the 2025 MIAI-Cluster IA Call for Chairs.

Her doctoral thesis, titled “Meta-ecology and Adaptive Apparatus in Architecture: Trees as an Interactive Systemic Model”, focused on meta-ecology and the interactions between humans, architecture, and milieu. Research-creation and interdisciplinarity are the two defining features of her approach. Her findings have been published in two international journals, and she has delivered twelve conference papers at international symposia with proceedings, seven invited lectures at the request of organising committees, and four instrumental and methodological developments.

She taught architectural and urban design (TPCAU field) for eighteen years at the ENSA Grenoble and ENSA Paris-Val de Seine schools of architecture, serving as an associate lecturer and part-time lecturer. She was responsible for design studios, theoretical courses, and international initiatives in South Korea. Her teaching spanned both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also held collective responsibilities, including coordinating teaching teams, participating in multidisciplinary working groups, and serving on pedagogical and scientific committees.

Her professional practice, deeply engaged with the transformations of our contemporary world, is characterised by a commitment to exploratory approaches—whether in terms of the originality of her projects, innovative design methodologies, or new modes of architectural production. Her work spans both public and private commissions and addresses all scales. The sensory experience offered to users lies at the heart of her concerns. Through the diversity of her projects, she explores themes such as the creation of immersive environments and the integration of emerging practices and uses.

She served as Innovation Project Manager within the Innovation Department of the Technological Research Division at the CEA (Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), specifically at CEA/DRT/DINOV.

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Thèses de doctorat soutenues. CRH - EVCAU / 2021 - 202

Yann Blanchi , Elizabeth Mortamais , David Serero , Robert Le Roy , Jean-Denis Parisse et al.

Transversale. Histoire : architecture, paysage, urbain, 2022

Article dans une revue hal-03893049v1
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Matérialité numérique et tectonique paramétrique

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Rossella Siani

Les Cahiers thématiques : architecture et paysage, conception, territoire, histoire, 2016, Matérialités, pp.105-114

Article dans une revue hal-02016681v1

Les systèmes Cyber-Physique-Humain et les dispositifs architecturaux

Yann Blanchi

Colloque international : Projeter l’architecture aux carrefours du numérique et du vivant, Jan 2020, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-03542430v1

L’architecture adaptative, Des maisons psychotropiques aux surfaces à changement de forme

Yann Blanchi

Colloque international Architecture évolutive / réversible : formes et dispositifs, Feb 2020, Rennes, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-03542406v1

Adaptive architecture, an implementation with game theory. Emotional input and pneumatically driven actuator

Yann Blanchi , Corinne Touati , Elizabeth Mortamais

International Conference on the 4th Game Set and Match (GSM4Q-2019), Feb 2019, Doha, Qatar. pp.228-228, ⟨10.29117/gsm4q.2019.0034⟩

Communication dans un congrès hal-03543648v1
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Modélisation architecturale assistée par des données

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi

01Design10, Ecole d'Architecture de Grenade, Nov 2016, Grenade, Espagne. pp.81-92

Communication dans un congrès hal-02016670v1

Dispositifs adaptatifs : Robotique déformable et surfaces pneumatiques à changement de forme.

Yann Blanchi

Programme design en séminaire ENSCI Les Ateliers : Le concepteur et la machine : un regard sur la convergence entre le numérique, le physique et la biologie, Dec 2018, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-03544036v1

Learning from plant signalling : Adaptive architecture and bionic design

Yann Blanchi

3rd international conference of biodigital architecture & genetics, Jun 2017, Barcelonne, Spain

Communication dans un congrès hal-03542557v1

A psychotropic surface based on soft shape-changing material: Emotional input and pneumatically driven actuator

Yann Blanchi

Kine[sis]tem’17 - From nature to Architectural Matter International Conference, Jun 2017, Libonne, Portugal

Communication dans un congrès hal-03542551v1
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Modélisation architecturale assistée par des données : Donnée, information, paramètre et connaissance

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi

01design10 10e colloque multidisciplinaire sur la conception et le design, Nov 2016, Grenada, Espagne

Communication dans un congrès hal-01924324v1

Cost Analysis and Data Based Design for Supporting Programmatic Phase

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Marian Janda

Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (ECAADE), Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R, Sep 2015, Vienna, Austria. pp.613-618

Communication dans un congrès hal-02016470v1

Les principes de la SmartCity support d’une activité projectuelle et d’une contextualisation subjective

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi

Séminaire de Conception Architecturale Numérique (SCAN), Jun 2014, Luxembourd, Luxembourg. pp.334

Communication dans un congrès hal-02047700v1

Interactive Concrete Surface

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Philippe Liveneau

Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE), Mar 2014, Singapour, Singapore

Communication dans un congrès hal-02047719v1

La matérialité numérique : une illustration

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Philippe Liveneau

01Design, May 2012, Bruxelles, Belgique

Communication dans un congrès hal-02016748v1

Digital Materiality : Conception, Fabrication, Perception

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Philippe Liveneau

Scaleless - Seamless, Performing a less fragmented architectural education and practice, Nov 2012, Münster, Germany

Communication dans un congrès hal-02047576v1

Thinking With Computers and Fabricating With Machines

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Hervé Lequay

International Symposium on Algorithmic Design for Architecture and Urban Design (ALGODE ), Mar 2011, Tokyo, Japan

Communication dans un congrès hal-02016746v1

Digital Materiality: an experiment with smart concrete

Philippe Marin , Yann Blanchi , Angelo Guiga , Philippe Liveneau

Rethinking the Human in Technology-Driven Architecture, Aug 2011, Chania, Greece

Communication dans un congrès hal-02016745v1