Link with our project.

Reading delirius New-york , and looking at this exemple, we tried in our project to create this idee of "congestion" as a necessary point to obtain a living, interesting, mixed, city.
But in our project the layers of different uses are not crossing in section but in plan.

"In Paris the destruction of Les Halles, a former market area, resulted in a complex attitude and even a neurosis with regard to this issue. After the centrally-located markets were torn down, people’s view toward modern city planning became complex, and we should point out that the only lasting attempts at creating a modern cityscape were the large and somewhat diluted projects of Mitterrand, that gave the impression that modern building projects could only be those on a grand scale, neutral, abstract and a little cold. This perhaps explains the current lack of a shared conviction on the status of modern architecture in the city. This evolution can even be seen in the fact the word “tower” has become a bad word in a city where the Eiffel Tower is its most identifying landmark." Website oma.

More than this argument about historical centers in France, what is very interesting in my opinion, in this project is the way we can see the city as a crossing point of uses. This place in Paris is very complex about that and the work done on the section (under) shows how uses are represented as different layers growing out of the floor.