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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?
As the park undergoes a conflictual relationship between uses, the project takes advantage of its history of accumulation by scrutinising existing potentialities. The reclamation of underused spaces reconfigures spatial relationships between park and city. Underground facilities become the trigger of a newfound spatial cohesion. The park fully acts as an open platform, a civic infrastructure.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet? 
Instead of building a cover which would appear as a form of tabula rasa, the project is invested in revealing the potentials of the as-found situation. The goal is thus focused on mobilising, opening and activating the existing vast leftover underground spaces. The Trémie becomes an agora; technical rooms, the entrance to the Museum Mile; an unused tramway facilities, a cultural hub.

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