E18 Portrait - La Mémoire Circulaire

Caen (FR) - Runner-up

La Mémoire Circulaire

Associates: Viet-Thai Dang (VN) – architect, Kim-Khanh Hoang (VN) – landscape architect

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"Since the beginning of the project, our goal has been driven by a simple and essential question: how can we preserve existing values, both visible and invisible, while adapting them to contemporary societal needs? We consider the city as the source itself. In Caen, and more specifically in the Le Chemin Vert neighborhood, the diversity of urban fabrics - collective housing and family dwellings - combined with a beautiful natural landscape, reveals significant potentials waiting to be explored and developed."

Promoting an open neighborhood
Reinventing the commercial center – opening the Jacquard site
A new way of living – a green economical ecosystem