OPERATION RE.MEDIATION

Team Point of View

The AB112 belongs to the No Man's Land of the World War I, an old conflict that is still generating ecological after-effects today. We believe that it represents an opportunity to reverse the legacies of war and climatic disasters, by producing a post-traumatic architecture and landscape. If modern wars have fully played their part in ecological upheavals and have been able to unravel links between living beings, the aim of the operation is to structure a large-scale remediation front (of livings, environments and resources): an ecological rearmament plan to govern the commons of war in the 21st century. It is based on a network of 14 former air bases and weaves together new approaches to cooperation, experimentation and solidarity in the face of future disasters and energy conflicts.

Jury Point of View

The project reflects the military history of the site and develops a more general statement on the repair of living environments affected by war, past conflicts or future natural disasters. All interventions and planned uses contribute to remediation through memory and the care devoted to the living world. The jury appreciated the geographical dimension of the proposal as well as the conceptual and allegorical approach which has value beyond the scale of the site itself. It highlighted the careful consideration of military architecture and the qualities of the project in its design and details. The richness of the subject of remediation takes us beyond the post-traumatic vision that appears on first reading. The jury therefore wanted to emphasise the team’s sensitivity and the originality of its response to the theme of the session.