E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Metacenter : the emergence of a garden territory

Saint-Herblain (FR) – Winner

Team Representative:  Jean-Rémy Dostes (FR) – architect urban planner;  Associates:   Nicolas Beyret (FR) – architect; Claire Jeanson (FR)  – architect urban planner; Gabriel Mauchamp (FR) – Landscape architect Urban planner
Contributor: Paul Jaquet (FR) – architect; Antoine Pinon (FR) – architect urban planner

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G. Mauchamp, J.-R. Dostes, P. Jaquet, A. Pinon, N. Beyret and C. Jeanson

"Preux is a garden-city from the 1980’s that progressively lost the “utopian qualities” that made it famous –social diversity, village-like life quality– and that was confronted to several urban pressures: road and commercial infrastructures, public transportation…"