The 2012 Festival des Architectures Vives (Festival of Lively Architecture) was held this year from June 13-17th in Montpellier, France. Eleven teams were selected from to create an architectural installation among the urban courtyards of private mansions and one was juried to be the winner.

The FAV Pavilion (above) called Wood Box was designed by AtelierVecteur.

The winner – Premiere Neige by École d’architecture de l’Université Laval, Le collectif de la fourchette, Emilie Benoit Beaulé, Alexandre Boulianne, Jean-François Laroche, Eric Lizotte, accompagnés de Marianne Charbonneau, Etienne Bernier, Jean-Philippe Saucier – Québec, Canada

Invitation a la Levitation by Cyril Rheims, Mathieu Collos, Pérols – Montpellier, France

Reframe by Adam Scales, Pierre Berthelomeau, Paul Van Den Berg – Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

Smooth Rock by MN-Lab: Gwenole Mary, Arnaud Negre – Nîmes, France

Cite Surprise, Cite Surprenante by Tri-Oh! ateliers: Javier Peña Ibáñez, Cristina Sánchez Algarra, Madrid – Paris, Espagne – France

Topographie de la surprise by UrbanB’s: Farzaneh Bahrami, Marco Asciutti, Matteo Muggianu, Enrique Enriquez, Lausanne – Milan – Montréal, Suisse – Italie – Canada

ByeByeBalloon by Shalumo: Samuel Berthomeau, Lucie Mothes – Bordeaux, France

Ne Derangez pas mes cercles by Julie Biron – Berlin, Germany

Tournearound by Dondecabentres: Erik Herrera Iturat, Cristina Bestraten del Pino, Aina Bigorra Gonzalez – Barcelona, Spain

Le Renversement du ciel by Le Bureau des Affaires Scéniques: Suzanne Thoma, Domnine Jobelot – Paris, France

Foret Urbaine by Aa64: Phillip Anzalone, Stéphanie Bayard, Will Laufs – New York, USA