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Architects: Dominique Coulon & associés
- Area: 6500 m²
- Year: 2010
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Photographs:Eugeni PONS, Olivier Nicollas
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Structural Engineer: Batiserf, Philippe Clement, Cécile Plumier, Frédéric Blanc
Text description provided by the architects. The project is part of the very subtle town planning scheme adopted by Bernard Paurd, in an attempt to pull together the different signs and traces that are superposed on the site like the various writings on a palimpsest. The scheme reorganises the neighbourhood on the basis of the right-angled intersection of two historic axes, one leading from Paris– from the Saint-Michel fountain – to St Denis’ Cathedral, the other starting from the cathedral and heading towards St Lucien’s church. This crossing of X and Y axes highlights the surfacing of various traces - ruins of a Gallo-Roman necropolis stand where the scarred landscape bears witness to the demolition of the ‘Ravel’ and ‘Presov’ blocks of flats, dynamited on 23 June 2004. As if the map had marked the territory with a tattoo.
