Urban development

      

The focal point for this brief was a small suburban market square placed at a bend in the road and in the vicinity of the church.  The open street space provided by Deuil-La-Barre-Strasse was enclosed by houses of an appropriate size along a green axis between the community centre and the market square.  Local politicians had envisaged a festival square (45 x 30 m) lying at the hub of the town centre for use on just a few – albeit very important for the community, of course – days in the year.  Because we were of the opinion that an empty, little-used square was not a suitable fitting centrepiece for a town, but rather that a town centre should be ‘appropriated’ and seized on a daily basis by the locals, the festival square was relocated to an essential, at-grade car-park suitable for multi-purpose use.