The Bruneseau sector located in the South-East of Paris Left Bank is a border area between Ivry and the 13th arrondissement. This district is made up of a multiform urbanization that extends vertically. We choose horizontality, neu- trality and efficiency in this landscape saturated with symbols.
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reception time for migrants is divided into two phases. A first one, on the site. Here we create a point of convergence, a generator of urban energy to bring the city to the new arrivals. This center takes the form of a set of porous pavilions drowned in a plant canopy forming a boundary. The newcomers' center.
A second, in the urban fabric. Once the time of adaptation is over, the newcomers are propelled into the city. Associated with small neighborhood programs, housing colonizes the urban landscape. In the form of small towers with a wooden-concrete structure, they come to occupy the hollow teeth and other ur- baine holes.
The two systems form a programmatic interdependence. They constitute a new network of flows in the territory. It is an archipelago that expands at the rhythm of arrivals.

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Type

Urban planning & Infrastructure

Materials

Concrete, Oak

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