Beatmatching

2021
Team point of view
As an entry point to Pont-Aven, “Belle Angèle” is an industrial wasteland located between rurality, urbanity and river: a convergence point of living temporalities. Grounded on their mutual synchronisations, our project supports a new way of inhabiting its territory, balancing humans’ rhythms and natural cycles. Tools for this mutation include revitalization and re-employment. The resources needed for this renewal come from its surroundings and Aven’s territory. Different types of uses on the same territory will allow this new neighbourhood to work in synergy. Time and spaces match to offer Pont-Aven a global approach and a continuous evolution. "Beatmatching” composes the backbone of its reversibility in time, aiming to orchestrate times, rhythms and cycles into a new Pont-Aven’s lifestyle.

Jury Point of View
The jury stressed the originality and relevance of the territorial approach and theoretical stance taken by the team on life rhythms and life cycles, in resonance with the theme of living cities. The project, which includes seasonal housing, is based on inventive space-time programming and deals very well with the question of uses and the coexistence of activities by revealing a potential for varied kinds of occupancies. The project appears complete and very coherent at all scales.