Amandine Hernandez

Co-founder | COO

Seasoned architect and designer-builder.

After 10 years of experience in France and Brazil, she became an urban planner when she decided, in 2017, to join the Villes Vivantes project. For the artistic pleasure… and the political ambition.

Six months later, she became a co-founding partner and took charge of operations.

Her method: frankness, enthusiasm, a spirit of service. Her art: bespoke design, unconstrained beauty, just the right technical skill – and advanced.

She leads Villes Vivantes’ operations on the ground.
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BAMBA: she is developing France’s first bespoke housing development.
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BIMBY: one plot at a time, she is building the future of the detached house.
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She is encoding the path of organic beauty.
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She recruits, trains, leads the way, and sets the tempo.
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She orchestrates Villes Vivantes’ major events.
Organic Cities 2024 in Paris — 1,000 people, 2 days.
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Her publications

Scientific publications

✼ Hanss, T., Hernandez, A., Lempérière, P., Miet, D. & Caraire, D. (2018). BAMBA, un projet de recherche & développement open source [BAMBA, an open-source research & development project]. vvcodes, March 2021.

Organic Cities proceedings

✼ Hernandez, A. & Caraire, D. (2024, 18 January). BIMBY et BUNTI: faire des habitants les maîtres d’ouvrage de la transformation des tissus urbains et ruraux [BIMBY and BUNTI: making residents the project owners of the transformation of urban and rural fabric]. Organic Cities I, Paris. Sciences Po & Villes Vivantes. → watch the video

✼ Hernandez, A. (2025, 18 September). La densification douce et ses micro-folies [Gentle densification and its micro-follies]. Organic Cities II, Rennes. Sciences Po Rennes & Villes Vivantes. → watch the video

Trade press and opinion pieces

✼ Hernandez, A. & Rivière, P. (2022, February). BAMBA Clermont-Ferrand, une façon radicale de repenser la ville durable [BAMBA Clermont-Ferrand, a radical way of rethinking the sustainable city]. leconnecteur.org, February 2022.

✼ Hanss, T., Hernandez, A., Lempérière, P., Miet, D. & Caraire, D. (2020, December). Bimby, Bamba, Bunti: dépasser le modèle de la promotion immobilière pour métamorphoser la ville [Bimby, Bamba, Bunti: moving beyond the property development model to transform the city]. Opérations Immobilières / Le Moniteur, December 2020.

✼ Hanss, T., Hernandez, A., Lempérière, P., Miet, D. & Caraire, D. (2021, March). Rénovation et reconfiguration: Bunti, une ingénierie de pointe pour multiplier par 10 l’effet de levier de l’investissement public [Renovation and reconfiguration: Bunti, cutting-edge engineering to multiply the leverage effect of public investment tenfold]. Opérations Immobilières / Le Moniteur, March 2021.

Articles — The Villes Vivantes guide (vv.guide)

✼ Hernandez, A. (2024). Bordeaux: surélever ou muséifier? [Bordeaux: upward extension or museumification?]. Le guide des villes vivantes.

✼ Hernandez, A. (2024). De hangar à habitat: l’art de la transformation architecturale au service du logement [From shed to home: the art of architectural transformation in the service of housing]. Le guide des villes vivantes.

✼ Hernandez, A. (2024). Non, la maison individuelle avec jardin, ce n’est pas fini [No, the detached house with a garden is not over]. Le guide des villes vivantes.

✼ Hernandez, A. (2024). Ce n’est pas la fin du pavillon avec jardin en Bretagne: c’est là qu’il se réinvente [It is not the end of the detached house with a garden in Brittany: that is where it is reinventing itself]. Le guide des villes vivantes.

✼ Hernandez, A. (2023). BAMBA: quand la maison (re)devient la meilleure manière d’habiter et de créer de belles villes [BAMBA: when the house (once again) becomes the best way to live and to create beautiful cities]. Le guide des villes vivantes.

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