120 apartments, activity rooms, restaurant, fitness center, swimming pool
Rebuilding the city on 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 sector is part of an ambition to rebuild the city on itself by increasing the urban mass in order to combat sprawl, a source of environmental nuisances and poor living conditions. In the urban continuum of Toulouse, the Latécoère site must therefore articulate different scales. Its relationship to larger territories, but also its anchoring in the local, in the here and now. This means rethinking the mix of uses.
The scope 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 large complex of eight-story apartment buildings scattered throughout a largely wooded urban park.
Our methodology consists of articulating the scales of the site in a process of urban stitching, reconnecting the block to the neighborhood through a road network that ensures true urban porosity, establishing landscape continuity that encompasses all urban strata — ground surfaces, terraces, and roofs — and finally, thematizing the proposed urban typologies in order to strongly characterize the place.
