Title: Lyon confluence
Project Name: Urban project, student work Lyon School of Architecture
Date: March 2009
Location: Lyon, France
Programme: Housing, offices and retail
Date: March 2009
Location: Lyon, France
Programme: Housing, offices and retail
Team: Lya Blanc, Oscar Gential, Nicolas Souchko
To work
the city from its existing content appears to be an essential and determining contemporary
issue.
Located
in the Perrache district, the Market of National Interest (like a wholesale
market) is surrounded by the residential area Saint-Blandine, the highway A6,
the boulevard Charlemagne and the new urban district of Confluence 1. This district clearly shows the strength of flexibility of architecture.
Our objective was to demonstrate the
potential of architecture, not in the idea of conserving a memory of the
previous site, but rather in the re-investment and the mutation of
architectural spaces.
This project must demonstrate the
inherent potential of architecture to adapt to new uses, to new epochs.
A 6.00 meters wide component with some differences
is repeated on more than 500 meters for
this market. It was abandoned in December 2008.
The
evaluation of the potential of flexibility of this architecture is essential.
To develop this approach we put together a catalogue listing all the constructions
of the area, their surfaces, their height, their interiors, their façades, and
their structures. This analysis helped us to explore new building possibilities.
Through
this project we wanted to evaluate first what the existing city can support
today.
