The conception of our project is from a second
reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by
integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and
qualities and to reveal the poetry of the place.he
project will act as a catalyst to create a future district by outlining
a territory. This consists of complicated relationships between
industrial and commercial buildings, historical flags, and public
services. The objective is; to impose a politeness on the secondary
road; to desynchronize the ‘shelf’ space - built by the rhythm of the
automobile; to modify the perception of a landscape, which has
undergone an uncontrolled territorial transformation.TThe
project foresees the reception of three autonomous and additional
programs: a residence for students of 150 housing for 170 residents, 19
housing for researchers or invited professors and housing for women in
distress. The objective is to create social coeducation, where each
establishment has its own human scale management system, resulting in a
beneficial synergy between establishments. In
conclusion the project foresees guard's accommodation, private study
rooms, laundry, space for relaxation, internal and external, and
gardens with fruit trees. The project will break from a territory that
is too dense for vegetation to grow and too chaotic to be urban. The
project will reintroduce and prolong the morphology of the ‘fragment’,
which has structured the district, by four buildings with different
typologies. Where each allocated plots of land for a household and
garden. This urban logic is controlled by a geographical logic,
where buildings and facades are orientated east west, to protect
against noise pollution. Their constructions fits within the size of
the district, in volumes developed on more packed R+2. The volume of
each of the 4 buildings is specific in order for them to become
integrated into their immediate environments and to manage transitions
with existing buildings. The global density of the plot of land will be
about 1.25, a density that seems rather strong to suggest politeness
and rather weak to be able to assert itself as a piece of the urban
fabric. Within an ill-assorted district, the project will be
an urban facade on the road of Saint Leu in the North; it will then
rearticulate a landscape between the urban fragments of a dense south
and suburban north.