Meriem Chabani
Architect, urban planner and Co-Founder, New South
Meriem Chabani
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Holcim Awards 2014 Asia Pacific ceremony, Jakarta, Indonesia
Presentation of the Holcim Awards "Next Generation" 5th prize 2014 for "Re-Made Fabric: Garment district intervention, Chittagong, Bangladesh" (l-r): winners Meriem Chabani, Etienne Chobaux and John Edom of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Malaquais, France, together with Shankar Kumar Roy,GM Business Development, Holcim Bangladesh.
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Holcim Awards 2023 - Welcome Reception
Meriem Chabani, Next Generation Ambassador, Holcim Foundation, France; Lesley Lokko, Founder & Director, African Futures Institute (AFI), Ghana and Curator, 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia; and Christian Benimana, Co-Executive Director and Senior Principal, MASS Design Group, Rwanda.
Last updated: May 24, 2024 Paris, France
Together with Etienne Chobaux and John Edom, she won a Holcim Foundation Awards Next Generation prize in 2014 for Re-made Fabric in Bangladesh. The research project investigates relationships in between producer and consumer nations in the global garment industry. It presented a catalog of potential architectural interventions to improve working conditions and potentially eliminate practices of labor exploitation in the garment sector. Meriem Chabani presented the project at the Holcim Awards Lab 2015 in New York City, USA.
Project Entry 2014 Asia Pacific - Re-Made Fabric: Garment district intervention, Chittagong, Bangladesh
To enable a shift from mass localized production to a networked micro production, Re-Made in Bangladesh explores urban planning with micro- and macro-architectural interventions. The model workshop represents the project’s approach to urban planning. The 10 Toolhouse and Workshop models are presented at 1:100 scale, the Import/Export Fair at 1:500.
New South is an international architecture, urban design and research practice based in Paris, France. The office is a collaboration between four partners of multidisciplinary and multicultural backgrounds: Meriem Chabani, Etienne Chobaux, John Edom and Maya Nemeta.
Meriem Chabani holds a Master of Architecture (High Honors) from École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Malaquais, France.
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Meriem Chabani from École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais in France considers the most outstanding aspect of her team’s project is that it allows for constant growth and develops through time. “Re-Made Fabric: Garment district intervention” in Chittagong, Bangladesh won the “Next Generation” 5th prize in 2014.
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Meriem Chabani from École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais in France considers the most outstanding aspect of her team’s project is that it allows for constant growth and develops through time. “Re-Made Fabric: Garment district intervention” in Chittagong, Bangladesh won the “Next Generation” 5th prize in 2014.