S7#12 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Itw, “A Force Born from Constraints, at the Heart of SIMI 2025!” with Aminata Sy and Alexandre Belle

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This episode of Com d’Archi does more than open a door onto SIMI – the Salon de l’Investissement Immobilier (Real Estate Investment Fair): it settles right into it, embracing its effervescence, its intersecting conversations, its raw energy.

Recorded in immersion within an open, non-enclosed press area, we worked to turn surrounding noises not into an obstacle, but into a soundscape. A collective breathing. A sign of vitality. A sometimes unruly counterpoint, yet always authentic.

At the heart of this living flow, two voices stand out:

Aminata Sy, Director of SIMI, and Alexandre Belle, associate architect at the agency 2Portzamparc.

Aminata Sy recounts her career without emphasis, but with a precision that reveals how one becomes, one day, the driving force behind a trade fair that has become a barometer for an entire sector. She speaks of transformations, territories, AI, decarbonization — not as slogans, but as fields of inquiry in which real estate seeks its most accurate form. Through her voice, we hear a profession in the midst of recomposition, engaged in the necessary transitions.

Then comes Alexandre Belle.

His words, composed like a clear line, connect a site, a climate, a topography, an economy, and ultimately give form to a project: the Alpha Hub in Sophia Antipolis. Here, architecture is built from shadow and light, efficiency and grace, geothermal energy and landscape. It becomes a way of inhabiting the future with the greatest possible delicacy.

One strong idea emerges: constraint is not a hindrance — it is a material. Perhaps even the most fertile one.

These two conversations, woven into the noise of the world, outline a shared horizon: that of architecture and real estate seeking less to shield themselves than to understand — and to prepare for tomorrow.

An episode that does not announce ready-made solutions, but opens paths.

Real paths. Human ones.

This English version was generated using AI with voice cloning, preserving the speakers’ timbre and their natural French accent. This MP3 is not perfect because of the technic very new but it allow to access to a so interesting conversation.

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