MARGINALE - "Il n'y a de vi[ll]e que dans la marge"
Métropole Rouen Normandie (FR) - Special Mention
TEAM PORTRAIT
VIDEO (by the team)
INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issue of your project in relation with the theme “Living Cities Imagining architecture taking care of the milieus”? And in which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution?
The main issue of our project is to consider the “Margins” in the Seine Valley territory as flexible spaces brimming with potential to adapt the city to the multiple consequences of global warming. By inducing users and makers of the city to look at the margins as spaces to preserve and to collaborate within, our proposition aims to initiate a radical yet pragmatic change of practice, capable of federating multiple players.
2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The site proposed by Rouen Métropole presents the evolution of the relationships between the geographical, residential and productive capitals of the Seine Valley. The hardening of its landscape demonstrates the dynamics of interactions and constraints that occurred through the anthropocene era. This evolution of the territorial morphology linked to the economic development of the valley met for us the issue of finding back the necessary flexibility to increase a territory’s resilience.
PROJECT:
We already treated these issues in our individual experiences (through projects to adapt french coastal territories risks). We are also inspired by the work of Paola Vigano’s team for the Transition of the Great Geneva consultation, especially the themes of “Hors zones à bâtir” and “Weak and strong structures” developed by the team. The issue of changing the way we look at territories in order to develop new potentials is inherent to our practice since we started to work together.
SITE:
«The Margin» as a collective living space carries with it the ability to induce and question the potential for mutation of the urban fabric it encircles. Working on the management of «The Margin» is an opportunity to define a specific form of governance that is both highly democratic and environmentally friendly. As a space of articulation between multiple uses, its governance calls for the broad federation of living and social actors through short and long term collaborations.
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Since we graduated, we’ve always worked together through side projects such as the Métropoles du Sud’s 2017 research scholarship winning project “Macadam”. As we share the same values about the social and ecological responsibility of architects and urbanists, it is obvious for us to continue to work through the same pathway. As we have known each other for many years, we shared the different skills according to our abilities.
6. How could this prize help you in your professional career?
This prize could help us continue to work together in a more professional way. It gave us the chance to propose our reflections to a professional jury, and it will now be the opportunity to exchange with the public sponsors of the Métropole de Rouen. We hope this experience can both nourish our professional career as employees and be a starting point for our own practice as a team.
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Average age of the associates: 30 years old
Has your team, together or separately, already conceived or implemented some projects and/or won any competition? if so, which ones?
The same team already won the Métropoles du Sud’s 2017 research scholarship with the project “Macadam”.
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