June 2011 | Paris, France
It’s so long that city’s and territories live together. Nowadays, this coexistence between them has grown weak in account of the indiscriminate city’s development.
The aim of our project is to recover the equilibrium between the densified territory and the natural one, to promote their interaction as an urban potential element. It is important to understand the natural territory as a part of a whole and not as a (contrary to a) geographic barrier through (with) the city.
Paris has been growing as a radial way, densifying all the perimeter at the same time the centre was bringing to a standstill. This expansion goes beyond the administrative limits, without control and without relying on/counting in the relation with the territory.
Our intention is to ramify this growth into controlled densified zones to avoid bringing the centre to a standstill at the same time we make fluffy the intersection spaces between this axis trying to penetrate the agriculture and forests into the city through the implementation of green corridors who will promote the relation city-nature.
After the analyse of the actual situation we realised that the periphery area is a bad distributed zone where the densified living areas are mixed with and non-used open spaces and the equipments are concentred in another part of the city. To sum up, an undesirable zone who promotes a day-zones and sleeping-neighbourhoods separated of Paris for the motorway (Périphérique) who acts as a barrier between the city and the rest of the world.
To solve the exposed problem, we apply three kind of green corridor, three different ways to relate the city and the open spaces to reach mixed used areas where the activity, the green space and the sleeping zones converge.
WORK TEAM: Bernat Colomé + Elisa Ferrando + Alba Julià
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