Les Petits Ventres-Villes
Competition team
Yves Micault (FR)
Tom Ollier (FR)
Architects
Toni Delaunay (FR)
Maïlys Charmont (FR)
Léo Redon (FR)
Architectural students
Europan 16 Limoges (FR)
runner-up
2021
Team point of view
We see that a link has been broken between the city centre and the Jacobins / Soeurs de la Rivière district: the system of public spaces offering a characteristic pedestrian fluidity seems to disappear after the Jacobins square, the first and last public space of the Europan site. Starting from observation that emptiness constitutes the urban space’s innervating material, the project will be initiated from a series of subtractive gestures in an intricate urban fabric where the pedestrian struggles to find socialization’s spaces. By bringing “le bien commun du Parc des Bords de Vienne” to the city-centre and the public space down to the riverbanks, social and natural ecosystems tied along small urban centralities, as an initiating process of Limoges bioregion.
Jury Point of View
The team provides a close analysis of each situation constructed to reorganise open space and create common ground. The proposal accentuates links with the river. The sectional drawings support this intention by tackling the question of the slope. The project shows precision of analysis and proposal in topographical and landscape terms.
