History(ies) of the hills
Marie Dal-Col (F)
Fabrice Galloo (F)
architects and urban planners
Alice Flavigny (F)
architect and landscape designer
Denis Herdsman (F)
architect
Europan 9 Saint-Chamond – Saint-Etienne métropole
runner-up
In order to open up a historically locked-in wasteland, the project uses a North-South lanscaped roadway system structured around an internal axis. To the East, activity platforms are created under the halls of the old steel-works. To the West, the built hillsides combine gardens and housing. Compact, flexible and evolutionary, the housing consists of collective houses which seem to regenerate the naturally sloping landscape and create a downtown lifestyle in tune with the nearby natural park. The project aims at promoting exchanges between individual and collective scales, various life and living styles, the workers’ inheritance and its future embodiment.
This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Typology
Through the development of inventive typologies designed for their landscape context, the project interprets the slopes as an opportunity to offer a high-quality living environment and architecture.
Nature - Working with
Using the natural topography of the slope, the linear urbanisation proposes to recapture the industrial wasteland for agriculture, a basis for new exchanges between individual and community.