2025 Construction Awards Selection / Award for Biodiversity and the Toulouse+Verte 2024 Challenge
Rebuilding the city upon itself.
The gradual disappearance of industrial sites located in city centers is freeing up large areas of land that are ideal for urban densification. Densifying the city means increasing mobility, reducing travel times, and sharing facilities.
The transformation of the Periole site, originally owned by Latécoère and covering more than five hectares, is part of this urban renewal plan.
The project developed in this area is part of an ambition to rebuild the city on itself by increasing the urban mass in order to combat sprawl, a major source of environmental impacts and degraded living conditions.
The perimeter of the project encompasses a variety of urban situations: to the north, the site borders a residential area consisting of low-rise buildings with gardens and tree-lined outdoor spaces; to the south, there is a nine-story housing complex.
Oriented north-south or east-west, these blocks strongly structure the landscape without offering significant architectural qualities; to the east, the Place de la Roseraie, with the garden at its center, is a focal point at the end of Rue de Periole.
The La Roseraie metro station is a major asset for the site in terms of mobility and alone justifies the mixed-use development.
Our methodology consists of articulating the scales of the site in an urban stitching exercise, reconnecting the block to the neighborhood through a road network that ensures true urban porosity, establishing landscape continuity across all levels — ground, terraces, and rooftops, and finally proposing unique urban typologies to give the site a strong and distinctive identity.
Photographie : David Aubert
