Place du Panthéon, once freed up, contributes significantly to developing and displaying the high quality spaces. The “Translateuse” is manoeuvrable by 3 or more people and allows the displacement of material. We created a tool for manoeuvring blocks of stone dedicated to this project. Nearly 550 hours of social insertion work was arranged. We undertook all the site construction in-situ and engaged two companies specializing in social insertion. The Mascarons found their place above the granite in response to the surrounding ornamental limestones facades. The timber platforms, added to the gridded arrangement of the granite blocks, are like large street furniture. Old kerbs presented simply on timber chocks as a raw material became functional seating and were arranged in a regular and orthogonal pattern. Revalorizing and reusing them where appropriate.Ī kind of 1:1 scale prototype that would support a physical and concrete discussion. At the Centre for Materials and Supply, we found paving blocks, slabs, granite kerbs, but also the Mascarons (carved figures with masks) which once adorned Le Pont Neuf. The materiality of this place and composing with the existing elements of this emblematic place: the granite hardscape and the ornamental limestone of the facades was a crucial starting point given for this site. Our observations questioned the capacity of spaces to accommodate and welcome people, their physiognomy, their uses, actors in the space, as well as temporalities. Introducing equality into the process of renewing public space is thus a change of paradigm, an innovative approach. At the same time, we built a kiosk that allowed us to be easily identified and in which people could stop, ask for information or give their opinion. These observations and feedback, coupled with the historical and spatial dimension of the square, led us to develop of a sober, abstract and inclusive design layout.” In March 2017, we laid the first stones. “We carried out a sensitive analysis of the square. Les MonumentalEs collective composed with Emma Blanc Landscape Architect (project manager), Collectif Etc, Genre et Ville, Albert & Co, and Emmanuelle Guyard, undertook experiments in the squares of Madeleine and Panthéon. Seven emblematic city squares in Paris were chosen to be redesigned to give more space to pedestrians.
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