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DESIGNING CITIES - Paris 

2nd assignment

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DESIGNING CITIES - Paris 

A PUBLIC SPACE

A STREET

A DISTRICT

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A PUBLIC SPACE

Centre G. Pompidou - Paris

This building was realized in 1977 and it has become a symbol of the

city despite the numerous criticisms. Years later, the Parisians (and

not only them) have started to know and appreciate it. Currently it

hosts a public library and it guards a collection of around 70.000 art

works, including design, architecture, photography and visual arts.

The most interesting thing is the dialogue that the building has with

the city. It is concretized in the great place ahead, apprently empty but

actually always experienced by people sat to read a book, going for a

walk or temporary installations and street artists. The place results the

central point of the dialectical connection that the centre has with the

facing buildings, typical Parisian architectures of 19th century.

 Piano & Rogers

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A STREET

Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir - Paris

This case doesn’t represent a street in the traditional sense of the term,

since it doesn’t allow cars transition. It is more about a path dedicated

to the slow mobility like pedestrians or bikes, linking two points of the

city and crossing the Seine river’s course. The idea that is behind this

“passerelle” is that of taking back of the elements that constitutes the

city. Infact the faculty to choose the higher run that dominates the old

city or the lower run that goes looking for the water element, is left to

the people who cross the path. And the most interesting thing is that at

the intersection among the two curves of the passerelle, a public space

is generated in the form of a stretched which transforms, at the end, a

street from place of passage to a place of life.

 Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

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A DISTRICT

Les Olympiades - Paris

Les Olympiades is a district of residential towers located in the 13th

arrondissement of Paris. Built from 1969 to 1974, it consists of a dozen

towers built along a huge esplanade, elevated eight metres from the

ground, that is dedicated to pedestrians. A shopping mall stands at the

centre of the esplanade. Below there are streets dedicated to vehicular

traffic. Les Olympiades were built with the aspiration that a population

of young professionals would be attracted to this very modern complex

offering multiple services (education, sports, etc.), a plan known and

later criticized as Italie 13. From 1975 its southern end began to attract

Vietnamese and then Chinese residents, who also populated the main

Chinatown in Paris around the southern end of the complex.