The terrace of the Bistro de l'Arche is located at the bottom of the Grande Arche, overlooking the esplanade of la Défense, the international business district in the west of Paris. The esplanade is a large public space framed by exceptional buildings and limited to the west by la Grande Arche, whi

Urban and economic development The city of Goma is the main city of the North-Kivu district and situated on the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of Congo, next to the border of Rwanda. Because of its geographical situation and the political context, the town had no peaceful and gradual devel

The leading principle for the conception of the new area is the combination of a built-up density, a high habitability quality and a high variety of housing for different populations and generations. The landscaping is adapted to the topography. The offset arrangement of the buildings create a set

Our proposal “Sense of a River” is a cultural park project. It is not only a homage to the culture of Saint Petersburg, it is equally an homage to the river Neva, the silent monument of the city. It is an oasis to be explored in the contemporary urban context. The connection with the city is re

In the early 21th century, the Mekong Delta stands between two major dynamics: The population growth and the urbanization, while the global warming threatens to reduce the surfaces for farming and living. This territory will be among the first to suffer the environmental consequences. It could there

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The city of Vitoria (318000 hab.) is located in a harbour and logistic conglomeration which is the entrance and exit for goods from the state of Espirito Santo. The metropolitan region (1625000 hab.) consists of 7 municipalities with economic, social and urban inequalities. Vitória, the capital of

The site of the housing estate, Cité Louis Bertrand, is situated in a network of green corridors between the Porte d'Ivry and the Fort d'Ivry. The rehabilitation of the housing estate is the opportunity to reinforce and integrate itself in the local urban fabric and to redefine its external spaces

Le Soft is in charge of the exploitation and rehabilitation of an urban wasteland for cultural production purposes under agreement with Sadev 94 and the town hall of Ivry-sur-Seine. The soft is spread over two sites in Ivry-sur-Seine Coulomb and Guillou. It brings together in the two premises more t

The Guillou site of the association le Soft is an urban wasteland rehabilitated for cultural production under agreement with Sadev 94 and the town hall of Ivry-sur-Seine. Together with the Coulomb site, it groups more than 50% of the artistic workshops (painting, sculpture, music, carpentry ...). Th

The forest is both, the operational point of departure and the central argument of the proposed development of the plain in its dimensions of program and use. The plain is a disregard and abandoned space. 2017 will be the year of the end of the irrigated crops and the removal of agricultural activit

In the near future, the agglomeration of Nokoué, composed of the cities of Porto Novo, Cotonou, Seme Kpodji, Abomey-Calavi and Ouidah, representing between 2 and 3 million inhabitants, will play a vital role across the Gulf of Guinea. The repartition of the roles between the cities of the agglomera

The project is part of the national Orly-Rungis-Seine-Amont development programme (OIN ORSA). The site of study is located north of the centre of Choisy-le-Roi and 12 km south from the centre of Paris. It is one of the few municipalities in IdF which extend on both sides of the Seine. The site of 12

The Avre residence, built in 1973, is characteristic of the urban planning of the ‘70s modern urbanism. It has 416 dwellings in 11 buildings from four to ten floors high. Our mission is part of a larger urban project including the dismantling of two buildings, the sale of land to private developer

The industrial harbour of Le Havre is situated on both sides of a large artificial channel. The planning of a wind farm along this channel conducts the transformation of nowadays agricultural areas into future industrial areas of the harbour. The position of the wind mills will determine an initial

The train station of Juvisy-sur-Orge is a transportation hub with over 1100 trains, 1500 buses and nearly 60 000 commuters daily. The largest train station of Ile de France outside Paris. The extension of the tramline T7 between Athis-Mons and Juvisy-sur-Orge under construction and in the future the

  This design concerns the construction of the headquarters of the company DIII - contemporary spaces in Obernai in Alsace. The green site is accessible from the north and marked by a strong slope to the south-west. A series of houses and villas forms the neighbourhood. To integrate the building i

The project builds on the local characteristics of a site in a great landscape to propose an urban fabric, which is capable to respond to the main challenges of the site: offering new diversified housing, building a city of proximity, giving access to services, shops, public transport and alternativ

Real estate valuation Located less than an hour from Paris by train, the manor of Liancourt stretches on steep woodland of thirty acres, includes a castle built in 1865 overlooking a park and a forest. Transformed into a sanatorium prison in 1947, the area is now largely abandoned. In fact, among

L’immeuble de 16 logements se situe dans le quartier de Bois l’Abbé, en cours de rénovation urbaine par l’ANRU. Le projet inclut la modification de l’entrée qui donne actuellement sur un passage couvert peu valorisant, pour un accès par passerelle via le jardin de la résidence. Les part

The agglomeration project of Annemasse is based on a population growth hypothesis. The existing city inherited from the second half of the 20th century is unfinished. Potentials are present for the internal growth (building the city on the city). And it also demand corrections to reduce disparities

Three connections, three parks The project builds on and links to various polarities, which make Bad Kötzting long term. Landscaping forms the superposition of three spaces: the river along the white rain, the park south of the town centre and the city of gardens as transitions between park a

The Town of Madrid would like to redesign their public spaces. The competition was to develop three different urban paths through which the inhabitants and visitors would discover the urban space of Madrid. The cultural path is mainly characterized through the historical town structure and its cultu

The Republic of Tatarstan is one of the most developed and industrialized Russia regions with an urban population of 75%. With its soils rich in hydrocarbons, the government wants to prepare the investments of the future and has commissioned a multidisciplinary group, led by the Leontief Centre in S

The spaces to be converted are situated on the ground floor in the town hall of the 10th district of Paris, at the angle of the streets Hittorf and Pierre Bullet. The program included the design of a childcare centre for 30 children on a surface of 410 m². To benefit from the natural light which pe

Reopening of La Hêtraie car park The La Hêtraie underground car park has two levels and is vegetated on the surface. The structure has been closed since 2007 due to a drop in demand from residents. The car park suffers from rising groundwater on the second underground level, in addition to struct

A new urban city block The city block of the Fusains is situated in the center of Aubervilliers, a sector undergoing an urban transformation. The block is characterized by the construction of a large housing complex in the 1970s on a former industrial site. The entire block is now cloisonne and its

The site is located south of the train station of Villennes sur Seine and develops itself in an east-west direction between the rue des Iselles and the railroad which follows the river Seine. The clients wanted to increase the surface of the house while preserving its form and the facade towards the

The project concern the thermal rehabilitation of a housing building located in the 15th arrondissement. of Paris. It is surrounded by a dense Parisian urban fabric with buildings from different eras. The 23 rue d'Alleray was built on a former narrow and linear parcel. The adjacent hamlet of Alleray

The site is on the edge of the Touques river, close to an activity zone and residential hillsides. Situated in a flood-prone areas, we draw an urban and landscape micro-centrality with a mix of uses within a larger renatured space. The project is composed of successive layers: the soil and the vege