Nieul-sur-Mer Masterplan

The Pinson’s path is an in-between, a meeting point between the town and the agricultural countryside. The two entities are not fated to turn their back on each other.

The design process of this project starts with taking into consideration the existing characteristics and opportunities of the area. The topography designs a long slope beginning faraway in the countryside context. This huge continuous line allows to figure out the agricultural landscape like a true skyline. It is a landscape that the town can welcome. By absorbing its qualities it can conceive a limit, both plain and porous.

The plan’s composition begins with designing the large landscape's orientations which open the project onto the huge landscape. The big cones of view allow the nature to get in the heart of the project.

From the square to the family garden, the project imagines complex relationships between public and shared spaces. The diversity of these areas should allow plural appropriations in order to put in rythm the collective life, to activate the nature and all life spaces. 

This variety of collective areas mirrors the diversity of housing typologies. From individual to collective, the buildings allow us to play with scales and density. More important in the middle, where the ground is the lowest, the buildings density decreases towards the exterior part of the site offering a soft transition into agricultural landscape.

credits

Architect: Clément Blanchet Architecture
Client: CM- CIC Aménagement Foncier
Nature of the operation: Competition
Realised in: 2019
Site: Nieul sur Mer, France
Program: 450 housings
Budget: NC

team composition

Landscape: Eric Enon Paysage
Environment: SCE