Systems OMA – Strategy : Final Layer

The final layer is a composition of the major elements, that are both created and found, which are cannot be organized based on a mathematical system due to their size. The relatively regular three layers then become the backdrop for this final layer on which certain selective elements become significant These include the sphere of the Museum, the Ariance, the Rotonde des Veterinaires, placed according to extensions of lines from the surrounding context The large scale elements also comprise of the existing major structures, which is the Museum and the Grande Halle, which is amplified by the insertion of the circular forests and other interventions around the entrances, like a reception square and the Music Zone.

What makes this proposition stand out is it addresses and takes into consideration something that Tschumi’s proposal did not. It makes a solid effort of creating an interface between the Park and the streets of Paris. It extends the presence of the Park to the wider urban fabric of the City in the form of the Music City which is located in the wedge- shaped area between the city and the Boulevard. Not only that, it also transforms the surrounding context of the railway line through vegetal connections that create two formal languages of the Park, the rectilinear and the curvilinear This layer creates articulations at an urban level and is the summation of the previous layers The multitude of activities embedded in this are the entertainment zone, the Astronomical Garden, the Media Garden, the pyramid green-house, a series of squares, sequestered along the Canal Siant Denis to the Halle aux Cuirs, containing exhibits for the Museum of Science 1 The These five layers make the Park a place of infinite series of meaningful spaces, that would keep on absorbing endless series of future changes and demands without compromising or creating redundancies. The useful coinciding with the poetic, the realization cannot but stick to the conceptual.10