PARC DES BRIGITTINES
The “Parc des Brigittines” lays on a ground suspended between the Jonction Nord-Midi and the Brigittines housing tower, two embodiments of the brutal pre- and post-war development policies.
The project focuses on the themes of play, craftmanship and shared territoriality. It
aims to convert a residual, enclosed and criminogenic space into a plain open to
appropriation, identification and share. Reinventing its relationship with the ground and working more in subtraction than in addition, the park will become a territory of games and adventures. The project is based on four simple supports: the plain, the wall, the slab and the workshop.
The shared workshop extends to the public space. The facades showcase only
reused bricks: a challenge given the circumstances and regulations imposed on public projects. The roof is home to allotments accessible to residents.
The parc is designed in accordance with existing elements and wishes to give back a more permeable and sustainable public space to the city and its inhabitants.
The wall linking the two Brigittines (the housing tower/the cultural centre) will become the support for access, meetings and above all games, slides, ladders and huts that will colonise and structure the plain downstream from the slab.
The slab is an interface between a private, domestic tool and the public one.
Covered by a work by artist Vincent Glowinski, it acts both as a painting for the
inhabitants and a groove game for the children.
In the centre stands a tree, invoking a new centrality to the space.
A tree through the concrete of modernism.
