Multiscaling characterisation of indoor comfort induced by light renewing of old houses with biosourced and earthern materials, analysis of social acceptance – CORON

The CORON project associates the University of Artois (Laboratory of Civil Engineering and Geo-Environment), the CNRS via the UMR “Architecture Urbanisme Société: Savoir Enseignement Recherche” (AUSser) and the Mission Bassin Minier Nord - Pas de Calais. Its purpose is to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative and traditional materials based on bioresources and georesources for use in the light renovation of ancient houses. The study is both technical and socio-cultural, combining laboratory research and collective fieldwork in the heart of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais mining basin, classified as UNESCO World Heritage. The originality of the project lies in the study of thermal comfort from the laboratory scale to the real scale associated with the implementation of a User Control Assistance which will make it possible to cross the expertise of use, held by the residents, and the technical expertise, held by the actors of the design in order to have a social and participative dimension. This role guarantees a real co-construction of knowledge and the place given to the residents in the project. The mining house renovated in this way will be considered as a Living Lab, a place for the exchange of knowledge. The project will benefit from the mobilization of local actors (the social landlord Maisons & Cités which finances the renovation of the house, the Chair 'Acclimatizing post-mining territories' and Master's students from the Lille National School of Architecture and Landscape, the association "Les Corons d'Orient" with residents of the district, the Post-Mining Network association with 45 French and foreign partners), as well as a scientific research environment based on multidisciplinary researchers (architecture, civil engineering, thermal, human and social sciences) including two post-docs requested for the project and appropriate scientific equipment including a state-of-the-art equipment (instrumentation, CT-scanner).