Portraits/Interviews Équipes primées E14

A social infrastructure

Platja de Palma (ES) - Mention Spéciale

Représentant d’équipe:  Clément Ringot (FR) – architecte
Associé: Maxime Beel (FR) –  architecte

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M. Beel et C. Ringot

We thought at first that one could not forcefully implement productive activities in the city and hope for it to work, as the city always offers some kind of resistance to those actions. Over time, it became clear in our mind that the theme of production, and its implementation in the city was intrinsically connected with the question of the territory. For decades, the development of the tertiary over productive activities led to an urbanism that only make sense since it is related to capital and not to local conditions. However, production is about local conditions, about the materials and the savoir-faire. A productive city is, therefore, one that takes part in the larger scale, one that fits with confidence into its own territory and benefits from it. Therefore, the aim of the project was mainly to reconnect a lost urban figure to its own territory, so that productive activities related to the local environment could take place on their own.