E14 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

The Anthill

Toulouse (FR) - Special Mention

Team Representative: Arnaud Jouanchicot (FR) – architect 
Associate: Hélène Grosdidier (FR) – architect

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H. Grosdidier & A. Jouanchicot

Cities are growing fast, so as their networks and inhabitants are flocking. Urban sprawling has already shown its limits but we are still implementing great distances between living and working places. The anthill deals with the ability for cities to develop on themselves, drawing from their existing resources, in a resilient and complementarity logic, by suggesting a hybridization strategy for commercial areas to blend working and living places. The old productive area is reinvented to highlight new human and urban forms : hurban.