Kerto

Giant trapeze of nearly 5 hectares, the lot comes between two antagonistic landscapes of the city. To the South, a heteroclite patchy plot, to the North, a uniform alignment of massive towers of social housing. These, seven to twelve stories high, stand on the edge of a large garden city built in the sixties. The vast terrain of the operation offers an opportunity to pacify urban autistic tissues to one another and gives enough space to reconcile the two territories. To suture the shores, three axes of transverse traffic are created, including a central pedestrian street that serves the equipmentsports and schools, half elementary and maternal.The four schools, mainly on the ground floor, are nestled under a vast carpet of greenery offering... More