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The irruption of highway infrastructures in large cities has given way to new landscapes and produced large residual spaces that are difficult to manage. Once scenic and in the foreground, these infrastructures now tend to be invisible as they are progressively buried and covered. These axes are now perceived as scars in the city. As the freeway and the car are now torn between feelings of rejection and fascination, it is essential to decide their fate: whether to disappear, to compete or to coexist with the road infrastructure.
Instinctively, the automobile appears as a solution to the problem it poses itself. The idea of reuniting this cult object with the neighborhoods it fragments removes any desire to disavow it and camouflage it. The trace of the tires, the print, becomes a motif, a source of inspiration, a pretext for a composition that sculpts a new landscape. Translating in an abstract way the spirit of this object that has shaped the modern urban fabric, the recurring motifs build the territory and partially cover the highway trench in order to allow its crossing more easily and thus strengthen the links with the surrounding assets.
(From the competitor's text)
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The jury appreciates the decision not to deny the presence of vehicular traffic. The exploitation of the encasement of the highway by maintaining transparency between the north-south links is relevant. The treatment suggested for the footbridges with a succession of geometrical planes deployed or contracted generates covered places that can lend themselves to different activities.
(From jury report)
(Unofficial automated translation)
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