Lost Highway - (L)earning from A87
Competition Team
Guillaume Barnavon (FR), architect
Europan 15 Champigny-sur-Marne (FR)
winner
Team Point of View
On the East of Paris, a piece of territory is crossed by a corridor of land that has remained frozen for an unfinished project. These pending lands create a surprising and singular void in this dense peripheral area. The result is an exceptional metropolitan garden phenomenon on this scale. Today, the various parcels that make up this lost highway are the support of isolated urban development projects. “Lost Highway - (L)earning from A87” is an alternative to this process. Instead of removing the void with a spill-over effect, we seek to intensify it with a project of territorial scope. We propose to create a metropolitan garden that would become an intercommunal backbone based on the system of Sensitive Natural Areas (ENS) in force in the Val de Marne department.
Jury Point of View
After identifying the pros and cons of an unfinished infrastructure, the groundwork is laid for a coherent topographical vision without the risk of isolated urban development projects. The various partners of this ring territory are called on to participate in creating a green belt on the scale of Grand Paris.
