Dr. Daria Maria Léopoldine Ardant

Daria Ardant is working at the Chair of Sustainable Construction since October 2018.

At first she worked during one year as Scientist Assistant to provide a poured earth material for backfilling application without cement stabilization 

Then she did her PhD thesis titled "Identifying critical parameters for robust poured earth application" under the supervision of Prof Guillaume Habert (main supervisor) and Dr. Coralie Brumaud (2nd advisor). The aim of her PhD thesis was to find key parameters from excavated earth as resources to provide a robust mix design overtime and expand the use of earth in European construction. Her focus was on poured earth without stabilization through the application of the strategy developed at the Chair of Sustainable Construction (deflocculation followed by delayed flocculation) on sludges from construction sites.

She is currently a postdoc researcher. Her tasks consist mainly to co-supervise the lectures "Materials and Construction" and "Re/Source the built Environment" , to work in the lab on new earth materials developments, and to co-organize workshop and hands-on on earth construction. .

She holds a Bachelor (2014) and a Master with research specification (2017) in Architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Architecture Paris Malaquais (ENSAPM). During her Master, she won the Renzo Piano Foundation scholarship and worked six months at Genova on the 1rst earth project of the office. During this professional break, she also made a long-term internship at the laboratory Navier at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés. There, she worked on developing interlock compacted earth blocks and completed her knowledge in geotechnics. She then continued this research for her Master's final diploma, which has been completed with honor and won the Best Diploma Award decerned by the Academie d'Architecture in 2018. Before starting at the Chair of Sustainable Construction, she worked for the office Joly&Loiret at Paris on the co-development of the project Cycle Terre, which valorizes excavated resources into earth material.