A.BAUERA 8, 10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA
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The Waldeck-Rousseau square
Saint-Etienne 2004 - in progress
Re:programming -re:construction -re:integration of the Waldeck-Rousseau square in Saint-Etienne: Downtown Saint-Etienne today consists mostly of claustrophobic spaces that need to breath - narrow streets like canyons, open spaces that are crowded with "things", discontinuity of public space and neglected major vistas. This project introduces new connections, unexpected public sequences, fluidity and continuity of space, and gives the area a metropolitan character through human scale. The place itself is at present a mess, a mixture of inward looking activities that ignore the space itself. By cleansing and opening, as well as by the superimposition of a contemporary matrix onto a historical one, the area will be available for a greater range of individual and collective endeavours, attained not with the implementation of small additions but with the help of light, integrated and changeable structures for the spectacles of everydaynes