Lacaton & Vassal architecture . Frederic Druot et Christophe Hutin
As architects, city-planners and landscape designers, we study the strategy and the feasibility of building 50 000 new dwellings in the Bordeaux’s metropole territory. The mission includes to study the ending of urban spawl, the reduction of expenses due to urban travel, the limitation of greenhouse gases, the reduction of charge and investments of a municipality in city planning.
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The proposition draws up an inventory of the different existing situations, tries to embetter with economical transformations the existing fragile dwellings, and produce new housing on already serviced places. No demolition, no cutting off, no master plan, but little by little, from case to case, with precision and attention.
Cities can be transformed if one is able to change the way to see it. Let’s see cities as collections of capacities and énergies that deserve to be extended, rather than an inert mass to sculpt. One could benefit to understand them more as agglomeration of activities and inhabitated spaces rather than a catalog of images either new either out-of-date. Changing the way of looking the cities leeds to regard what is existing as a living value. The possibility of a new happy and delighted start. So be it, the Bel Air neighbourhood could become the Camponac apartment building in Pessac, Genicard could turn into the Bois le Prêtre Tower, the Langevin secondary school could evolve as the ecological housing of Frei Otto in Berlin. Approching spaces by seeing their capacity of being transcended is something exciting. The Existing starts to gives imaginations.
50 000 DWELLINGS AROUND THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONS AXES- CUB (33)
Communauté urbaine de Bordeaux
2011, competition, in progress
Architects : Christophe Hutin,
Lacaton & Vassal, Frederic Druot
Client : Communauté urbaine de Bordeaux
Cost of the study : 546 500 €
