Introduction
The project is located in the middle of the island, far from the river Loire, in a suburban zone with social housing and factories. Directed by Alexandre Chemetoff since 1990, the project is the transformation of a long unused factory and warehouse district into a large working and housing neighborhood of 350 hectares.
Chemetoff's vision for the project rests on two underlying ideas:
-make the most of the existing structures without demolishing,
-take into account the history and geography of the site, and its social environment.
-make the most of the existing structures without demolishing,
-take into account the history and geography of the site, and its social environment.
The garden is split into two parts. Here, they planted gramineae, bamboos and arundos that will create “green columns”next to new water tanks. The garden will become a kind of “machines gallery”.
The former iron structure was repaired and painted. The roof was replaced with a mix of full and transparent polycarbonate tiles.
The site covering (roof and buildings around) protects it from the wind and allows the temperature in the garden to be 3 or 4 degrees Celsius higher than outside. This “greenhouse's effect” allowed us to plant almost exotic vegetation.
| Lat: | 47.2382 |
| Lng: | -1.56097 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | Europe |
| Scale: | District |
| Field: | Compositive |
| City: | Nantes |