Saint-Herblain (FR) winner
Jean-Rémy Dostes (FR)
Antoine Pinon (FR)
Atelier Chuck, 65 rue Servan
Claire Jeanson (FR)
architect - urban planner
75011 Paris, France
architects - urban planners
Paul Jacquet (FR)
T. +33 689141148
Nicolas Beyret (FR)
architect
contact@atelierchuck.com www.atelierchuck.tumblr.com
architect Gabriel Mauchamp (FR) landscape architect - urban planner
90 Overview
Metacentre: the emergence of a garden territory Team point of view The project re-explores outlying territories and looks at the revitalisation of the Preux district, a garden city that faces the gradual loss of the utopian qualities that founded its reputation. By imagining a dialogue between big urban entities (shopping malls, universities) and residential neighbourhoods, the project guides the emergence of ecosystemterritories: Metacentres. The team proposes a project-process that sets the minimum conditions for the Metacentre through a network of appropriable public spaces. The long-term management of the project is conducted via a tool of governance, the Atelier du Metacentre, which defines key actions and brings together actors, timeframes (agricultural, cultural, academic) and local and global initiatives. Jury point of view The jury liked the territorial strategy, which introduces relations between points of centrality. By proposing to open the Preux district to other hubs, Metacentre suggests a line of approach to an urban master plan, the basis for coproduction with residents. In so doing, the project avoids the trap of driving district intensification exclusively from within.
The Metacenters of Nantes Metropole
Possibilities, Atlantis and Preux
Possibilities, the «urban plates»