E15 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

InterActions

La Louvière (BE) - Winner

Team Representative: Olivier Robert (FR) – architect; Associate: Sophie Canfin (FR) – architect

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^{O. Robert & S. Canfin}

"Like many contemporary cities, La Louvière is made up of monofunctional urban entities that consume space and infrastructure, generating spatial segregation and a pendularity of uses. The challenge is to recreate proximity between production places, housing and leisure through an innovative reflection on the conditions of cohabitation of productive activities with the residential fabric of the project site. Thus, through a reflection on the status of soils, the quality of public spaces and the programmatic mix, our objective is to create new economic and social synergies, to induce a diversity of uses and to make the district live according to different temporalities."