Anna Saint Pierre

Crisscrossing construction sites to glean mineral scraps and transform them in textile workshops, this was the "big project" of Anna Saint Pierre's 5th year of textile and material design at EnsAD. That was in 2016. Since then, Anna has come a long way and defended a thesis on this subject in March 2022. She is now a doctor of design. And, now, she's putting her knowledge to work in the construction industry. "My role is to identify deposits of materials that are destined for the dumpster and that are also representative of the place, because in addition to the circular approach, I have the desire to keep the memory of the sites alive," says Anna. I then study the way in which they can be transformed on the site and I set up the protocol by identifying the companies capable of intervening. For example, on an office site in Ivry-sur-Seine, the facade that was removed was used to make the flooring for the central atrium and circulation areas."

Other avenues are opening up for Anna, who also presented a porcelain vase, painted with a colorful enamel chart with architectural waste, developed with the laboratory of the Manufacture de Sèvres.

If today I work on building sites, I also wish to develop a ready-made material for the craftsmen and the companies. For that, I need crushing machines. This prize will allow me to invest in this equipment and this project.

Anna Saint Pierre