My name is Blandine Plenard and I am a french exchange student at the Aho for this whole year. Before coming in Norway I got my bachelor degree in Architecture at the school of Paris-Belleville. I entered this school two years ago with another two years Applied Arts background in Space Design at the Ecole Boulle.
I choosed to share with you the project I did during the last spring semester 2010. This assignment was developed in a suburbs city surrounding Paris, called Pantin. Today, the main concern for the French capital and the suburban cities is regarding the densification of the existing infrastructure by re-investing the abandoned places. Our project was in this area. We had to introduce a set of two thousand housings on the site of a past industrial plant. The territory in which we intervened is characterized by the tension between the city, the industrial territory and the Ourcq’s canal which are in the same time separated. We tried to create a real dialog between the existing buildings and the new quarter and to reintroduce the canal into the city. Firstly, we analysed the site’s ingredients (existing stores, needs, sight..) to introduce it in the project, in order to create not only an architectural object but a place to live. Following some pictures of this work (the masterplan, the model and photomontages)
Very nice Blandine! The transformation of industrial sites is a topic that has been addressed with a lot of energy and research in the last years, in landscape architecture especially. These sites are usually huge and need a completely new and strategic thought on how they will be reappropriated by people and use. They have the advantage as well as the disadvantages to be in proximity of large scale infrastructures, wich makes them accessible but also influence the quality of the space. And they also represent ecological challenges cause soils are usually heavily contaminated by former activities, and being in proximity of water infrastructures as well usually they have heavily polluted their rivers also. Was there any ecological challenge posed as well in the brief of this project? Looking forward to your presentation friday!
Emerging Urban Territories is a master studio at AHO - Oslo School of Architecture and Design, run during the autumn term 2010 by Alf Haukeland, Alice Labadini, Thea Kvamme Hartmann and Dag Tvilde.
Very nice Blandine! The transformation of industrial sites is a topic that has been addressed with a lot of energy and research in the last years, in landscape architecture especially. These sites are usually huge and need a completely new and strategic thought on how they will be reappropriated by people and use. They have the advantage as well as the disadvantages to be in proximity of large scale infrastructures, wich makes them accessible but also influence the quality of the space. And they also represent ecological challenges cause soils are usually heavily contaminated by former activities, and being in proximity of water infrastructures as well usually they have heavily polluted their rivers also. Was there any ecological challenge posed as well in the brief of this project? Looking forward to your presentation friday!
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