E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Archipel de clairières, articuler des usages - composer des entités paysagères

Vichy Val d'Allier (FR) – Runner-up

Team Representative: Céline Frattesi-Bros (FR) – architect & urban planner; Associates: César Canet (FR), Laura Chavy (FR), Laetitia Paradis (FR) – architects

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L. Paradis, C. Canet, L. Chavy and C. Frattesi-Bros

"The site of Montpertuis-Palazol led us to two main issues: how to revitalize an industrial and military site, and, therefore, how to transform a forbidden area into a center of attractiveness. To answer, we tried to anchor new uses and to federate an identity of the place, progressively and sustainably, while integrating the issues of time and evolution […] It is about investing in the landscape of clearings, and to reactivate the existing architectural forms (riffle range, earth barricade, and building 53). Lastly, the wood channel is considered as a programmatic frame all together flexible and structural […]"