Objet/Espaces/Urbanité Trouvé(e)s

The project is the result of an investigation in a given architecture. The goal was to find elements to re-use. It does not focus on one building but on a site: The Rhine area. The project is about changing the attitude of the area towards its context. Once the industries will have left, it will gain a new orientation towards the water. Currently, the site is walled up and is 3 m higher than street level. The project takes place in this layer, between the wall and the existing buildings, connecting itself to the previously underground levels. The goal is to prepare the site to its new functions, to open it up and establish new connections and a dialogue with its surroundings. The wall is still the limit but it becomes porous and unifies the different parts of the project. It was built in prefabricated concrete and can be turned into a colonnade. It is about this one found continuous element and how it reacts with what is discovered behind it. The project is contextual. It deals with the existing, it defines its character, form and function.