The relationship between town and country is the local issue for the Orge Plateau and in particular for this project, where the eventual objective is to build 1900 dwellings in the fields.
The project offers a new balance, to measure the built areas but also to use them to create a sort of weave, where the new landscape to be created accommodates the pre-existing landscape. This idea, based on the strip layout of the former plantations, organises the encounter between the town and the rural landscape of the Orge Valley in a way that is not confrontational. Instead, it allows Nature, whether horizons, cultivated fields, livestock, public parks, reclaimed wetlands or private gardens, to infiltrate into every housing unit. Weaving also expresses the idea that the project's natural and built landscape is independent of the status of the ground, so that, for example, the big empty spaces that retain the views from the station, are private or inaccessible areas.

Commissioned by: SORGEM (SEM du val d’Orge)
Program: Planning of public spaces and private plots for the
construction of 1900 residences on the Clause bois Badeau area.
New central station project
Area: 148 acres
Competition period: 2006
Estimated cost: $23 million

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