E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Lieu(x) de négociation(s)

Paris-Saclay (FR) – Winner

Team Representative: Yvan Okotnikoff (FR) – architect; Associates: Aurelien Delchet (FR) – architect; Thibault Barbier (FR),  Mathieu Delorme (FR)  – landscape engineers - urban planners;  Thomas Nouaillier (FR) – architect urbanist

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collectif Georges : A. Delchet, T. Nouailler, T. Barbier, M. Delorme and Y. Okotnikoff

"We start from a simple observation that others have made before us: the city goes far beyond its designers.
The real urban quality depends as much on the appropriation by its inhabitants as on its initial design. It is not determined but it refines itself day to day and is constantly regulated.
We of course consider the important role of designers, but we believe that we must remain attentive and not confuse the path with the goal.
We started from this reflection to propose –for the site of Saclay– to think the development not as a goal but as a particular moment when ongoing negotiations between the different actors of the territory is defined."