#landForma

Amplifying Toulouse’s urban forms: converting an industrial wind tunnel into a museum dedicated to street art At the heart of the Guillaumet Planned Development Zone, the former wind tunnel of the Toulouse Aeronautical Testing Centre asserts its presence: an extraordinary scale, an intact industrial heritage, a rare spatial power. The project does not seek to erase this history — it extends and amplifies it.  landForma landForma A brick plinth anchors the whole within the architectural vocabulary of Toulouse, while the museum building rise above, slightly rotated on its axis, as if in tension with Alger street. Here, the material is as much a gesture as it is a choice: gabions made of recycled crushed concrete f... More

Beyond the line: mobility draws a new urban geography for Nantes In Nantes, a pioneering city for tramways in France, the new lines on the Île extend a legacy in which mobility and urban transformation go hand in hand. Lines 6, 7 and 8 are redefining metropolitan connections between Rezé, the heart of Nantes and the northern and western territories, while supporting the profund transformations of the districts they pass through. Beyond infrastructure, the project involves an reinvention of public space at every scale. From local streets to major metropolitan thoroughfare, the transformation of the street network restores clarity, fluidity and continuity to movement. The line junctions, conceived as flexible and legible sequenc... More

Reweaving a fragmented urban landscape A natural pass between Montmartre and Belleville, once a sacred route and later a royal road, Porte de la Chapelle is one of the oldest gateways to the city of Paris. The project draws upon this foundational identity to transform a stigmatised urban space, fragmented by the juxtaposition of infrastructures designed and shaped by the automobile. More than just a motorway junction, Porte de la Chapelle is also a landscape: by restoring greenery to its rightful place, unifying the ground level, and creating continuous pedestrian and cycle connections between Paris and Saint-Denis, the project enables this strategic link to recover its ability not only to connect, but also to welcome. Antoine Duhamel... More

A transalpine infrastructure as a catalyst for reshaping a transit territory Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is an Alpine town whose story is told first and foremost through its landscape: nestled within the Arc valley, backed by the Vanoise and Grandes Rousses massifs, it has always served as a gateway between France and Italy. The arrival of the Lyon-Turin high-speed rail line fits into the historical and geographical context of this region. landForma landForma The new international station translates this long-standing vocation into architecture and public space, reshaping the city’s entrance around a new focal point befitting the scale of the project. Designed to support thirty years of infrastructure transformations, the faci... More

Mobility as a driver of urban transformation Stretching 10 kilometres between Paris and Orly, the T9 tramway does not merely draw a transport line: it reconfigures a territory.  Cécile Septet By treating the vegetated platform, stations, pavements and intersections as an integrated system, the project restores a high-quality public space across six local authorities — greener, more permeable, more liveable. The transport project thus extends beyond the trajectory of its route, from town to town.It is also read through all the layers of public space. Cécile Septet More

From functional radicality emerges a new green and cultural framework for Toulouse What can productive architecture offer?In south-west Toulouse, the reconstruction of the Waste-to-energy plant becomes the catalyst for a broader urban intervention : burying the industrial facilities to free up land and open up views, extending the metropolitan green corridor, and creating a new place for living and culture at the heart of a district in transition. Three inseparable ambitions — landscape, architecture and civic — combine to transform this infrastructure into a new part of the city, as much as a facility supporting Toulouse’s energy transition. landForma More

Giving the city and its inhabitants a space where everyday life meets the event Porto-Vecchio is a town of opposing elements: the upper town and the sea, the salt marshes and the open waters, natural geography and the geometry of the port. It is within this duality that the marina extension project takes shape: first as a gesture of subtraction, excavating the seabed to bury parking underground, then freeing up the surface for an Ortu Marinu, a terraced marine garden that becomes a belvedere, promenade and living space for the residents of Porto-Vecchio all year round. Crafted from pinkish earth-toned concrete and textured like the sedimentary rocks of the gulf, the architecture is an extension of the layered Corsican landscape. Geo-histo... More

ArchitecturePaysage designed to respond to the demands of mobility in the post-carbon era  Versailles was built around the idea of movement: from horses to carriages and from carriages to trams, but also from tree-lined promenades to grand royal avenues. By positioning the new bus operations centre at the edge of the Satory Forest, our project draws on this heritage whilst responding to the demands of the post-carbon era. The project therefore sets out to explore a broader scope: to transform a technical infrastructure – capable of accommodating 140 buses, a maintenance hall and storage spaces – into architecture that blends into the landscape, sculpted into the topography, clad in stone and earth-toned concrete, and rende... More