Manual towards a CLUMSY City
Competition Team
Romain Granoux (FR), architect
Margaux Minier (FR), architectural historian
Europan 12 Budapest
runner-up
Team point of view
Starting from the postulate that vulnerability defines the sustainability of the city, the project, situated at the heart of Zuglo residential area, is designed as a manual for users and planners, identifying various temporal and spatial tools that provide overlapping solutions for the creation of a malleable, poetic and clumsy city.
The temporal and territorial fragmentation of these tools, as well as the participatory design process, constitute the essences of a method that opens up 1000 possibilities. They lay down the conditions for the representation of an archipelago city defined by the multipolarity of these small-scale interventions, which advocates a welcoming architecture that fosters moderation and values what is rather than what is not.
