E18 Portrait - Still, Life.

Miramas (FR) - Runner-up

Still, Life.

Associates: Céline Donzello (FR), Claire Sarrazin (FR), Moussa Belkacem (FR) – architects

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"Our project addresses re-sourcing by reactivating a fringe territory as a living ecotone. Landscape dynamics, local uses and low-impact materials rebuild social ties and ecological cycles. It is regenerative because it repairs, reactivates and transmits more than it consumes."

Playful garden as a shared landscape
Food-growing gardens within the collective housing blocks
A biodiversity reserve embedded in the workers’ estate