Gold in the shell
Damien MALIGE (FR)
architect
Europan 8 Chateauroux
runner-up
In the heart of the site, the project aims to transform the undetermined voids and residual spaces into a qualifying space so as to reveal a total urban landscape. The site’s fringes are remodelled, becoming an interface with the surrounding fabric while increasing porosity. They are differentiated and fragmented in relation to the adjacent urban fabric. The landscape co-ordinates all the polarities so as to create a compulsory path between the town centre image and the residential districts. It produces a town centre image by developing a public space strategy, to create centrality in order to refocus and integrate the town centre. This brand image is carried far beyond the bounds of the region thanks to the presence of an effective inter-modal network in its heart.
Site informations
Chateauroux
Synthetic site file EN
This project is connected to the following themes
Mobility - Interface
An interweaving across the railtracks is conceived as the “compulsory trajectory” of a three-dimensional landscape, which acts as corridor, park and underpass for slow-paced mobility on a continuous green surface.
Housing - Community
Housing forms the green wall of the new landscape. The linear development acts as a landscaped wall to the surrounding town, offering a residential habitat between park and city.
Nature - Limit / Reconnection
The fringes of the site are transformed into an interface between the dense urban fabric of the surroundings and the park, huge open interior landscape.