Regionale 2016 (DE) runner-up
Alice Hallynck (FR)
62 rue Crozatier
Marie-Hélène Merlin (FR)
75012 Paris, France
Edouard Cailliau (FR)
T. +33 668224783
Marion Verdière (FR)
bingo.architecture@gmail.com
architects
148 Actions areas of the modules
Mach es dir gemütlich / Make yourself at home Team point of view “Gemütlichkeit”, an untranslatable German word, refers to the pleasure of feeling at home. In this fragmented residential environment, the project has to be centered on each owner’s needs. That is why we are not proposing a masterplan but a toolbox that can be used in the three towns (and beyond). The living room becomes a module of the project, one that can be projected beyond the house to open up new opportunities for encounter. Including a private space in the front of house, or conversely shared spaces between private gardens, transforms the way we discover the city. The binary opposition between front and back is disrupted, opening up situations of great potential richness with the potential of adaptation to new needs. Jury point of view This submission takes a pictorial and almost poetic approach to demonstrating the potential of minor, recurring elements. These serve different, individual needs and together they create new signals that appear necessary for positive future development. “The quality of this almost subversive approach is supported by a site plan that presents a (virtual) collage of the three locations examined. The submission offers a good starting point for the proposed transformation processes in the vein of ‘handmade urbanism’.” An adaptable city able to accommodate new situations
The district before and after the beginning of the project
Injections of life that will spread all over the district
«Gemütlichkeit» in the living environment and beyond
