Les Traversées
Competition Team
Corentin Berger (FR), Architect
Gemma Milà (ES), Architect, urbanist
Julie Maillard (FR), Architect, urbanist
Elsa Adda (SE), Contributor - Architect
Esther Metivier (FR), Contributor - Student in architecture
Europan 17 Le Palais (FR)
winner
Team Point of View
The renowned Belle-île-en-mer exists in the collective mind as an idyllic and timeless scenery. It is currently facing concerns about climate disruptions and its overall resilience. In response to these challenges, the project explores the "cultural landscape" dimension, aiming to reinforce the belle-îlois narrative, from its genesis to its renaissance. Within this global vision, the island’s landscape becomes a “bien commun”, fostering synergies between the living actors and the territory. By adopting a transversal approach, the project interconnects by transects the diverse mosaic of environments across three scales: the bioregion, the island, and Le Palais. These traverses in the landscapes offer a genuine framework for observation, comprehension, and enable boundless possibilities.
Jury Point of View
The team offers a unique point of view on the island landscape as viewed from the open sea. The questions posed by the theme of the session find their resolution at the scale of the wider territory, whether insular, maritime or terrestrial. The proposal weaves links between the valleys, focuses on the management of environments on an island scale by considering the impact of human flows. Beyond a certain complexity of interpretation, the jury emphasised the quality of this proposal and its graphic expression. The project is situated at the right scale, on the threshold of an overly designed project. The jury also observed and wanted to highlight the consideration of the island as “an inseparable whole”, a message that resonates with global issues.
