RECYCLING ENCOUNTERS

TEAM PORTRAIT

INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issues of your project in relation with the theme “Re-sourcing”? Re-sourcing thanks to nature, to social dynamics, to new materiality? In which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution? And in which way do you think your project can be called a “regenerative project”?
Our project interprets re-sourcing as a material, ecological, and social process. We work with the resources already present on the site: construction waste, existing soil, neighbourhood networks, and local ecological conditions. Instead of importing new material or social structures, we recover and transform what is already there. Ecologically, the project reduces embodied carbon by reusing bricks, brick dust, soil, and prefabricated components. It restores permeability, creates a green-blue corridor, and promotes biodiversity through native planting and water-retention systems. Socially, it regenerates local dynamics by providing workshops, collective gardens, and a multifunctional pavilion that support skills exchange and community life. The project is regenerative because it not only limits impact- it actively repairs: it restores soils, redirects water, extends ecological networks, and strengthens neighbourhood interaction. It gives new value to what was considered residual.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The site is undergoing a profound transformation- from an industrial fabric to a mixed urban neighbourhood. Our design responds by acting as a hinge between the old and the new. The demolition process becomes a resource, not a loss. The social fabric, at risk of fragmentation, becomes a guiding element. The main questions- ecological integration, reuse, accessibility, and community identity- coincide with the challenges of this transition. The design reinterprets industrial logic (prefabrication, modularity, reuse) into a system that allows contemporary living while preserving the area’s memory. Thus, the project emerges from the site’s own tensions- density vs. openness, speed vs. care, memory vs. change.

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