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Is presented 472 projects of which the jury selected 9 for a second phase. Finally, in March

of 1983 by not reach consensus for any works the jury decided reward to design by

Tschumi who obtained the most votes.

Ofthe original elements constituting the place were maintained the Grande Halle and

the channel de Lourrcq. The winner project based his proposal in the creation of a largeurban area that despites the changes suffered from the awards to the final draft

maintained the essence of his conception.

The architecture of the park is considered by its author as architecture of signifier more

than the significance. The result of the project is product of simultaneous design

processes from analysis and decomposition of the program in a series of fragments and

its reorganization around autonomous systems and the definition of movement of the

site. From these operations are defined the three systems that structure:

An objects system represented by points

A movement system represented by lines

A spaces system represented by surfaces
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The layer or system of point is constituted by a grid of 120 x 120 meters that eliminates

any hierarchy within the structure of the park treating the whole as a uniform grid. The

points of intersection determine where are localized the references built, the Folies.

The second layer constructed by lines is represented by the galleries. The third layer of

surface is represented by the areas of pavement, grass and trees.

The superposition of the three systems leads to situations at random and conflict. Giving

from to the spatial structure of the park a progression to the text of landscape Michael

Corajoud, who in analogy to Archimedes palimpsest defined the contemporary park as a

superposition superposition of the trace of the English park on the trace of the French

park.

The Folies are designed from a cube structure of 10,80 x 10,80 meters with different

formal processes. According Tschumi, the Folies may originate from a programmatic

operation and vary over time, or a combination formally from the deconstruction of the

cube in confined space or moving elements represented as ramps o steps.

The Folies are the major milestone in space originated in the attraction of the red and its

repetitive feature in the park. Of the 35 Folies projected were built 26, the majority

contains specific functions. The galleries that run site from north to south parallel to

Grande Halle, is a large pergola wavy that accentuates the sense of movement and the

gallery which crosses from east to west runs parallel to the large channel as elevate

walkway connecting different Folies.
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The gardens surfaces are organized trace that contain activities and are part of a

cinematic tour organized between the coordinate axes and the large geometries. Each

garden covers approximately 600m2 differentiating traditional gardens of the host

childrens activities and spaces for recreation.

To collaborate on the project Bernard Tschumi invites the architects Nouvel, Eisenman,Pion y Viaplana and other, however part of the works not materialize for the rescission

prevailing in France in those years.

Today the park encompasses 35 hectares in an area of 55 hectares, that contains in the far

north the Cite des Sciences e lIndustrie projected in the structure of the old disused

slaughterhouse, and the Geod, an huge mirror ball witch host a cinema hemispheric of

1.000 m2, both works by Adrien Fainsilber opened in 1986, and in the southern the

Grande Halle de La Villette, a structure for the sale of livestock constructed in 1867 by

Jules de Meridol and the Cite de la Musique, work by Christian de Portzamparc in 1995

that houses the museum of music an amphitheater and a concert hall.

The Parc de La Villette is an urban space of many references which is by features and

content is one of the most important public spaces designed in recent decades and a

reference model of the conformation of the XXI century urban space.
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MEMORIA DE LOS AUTORES

The design for the Parc de la Villette was selected from over 470 international competitors.

The objectives of the competition were both to mark the vision of an era and to act upon the

future economic and cultural development of a key area in Paris. As described in the

competition, La Villette was not intended as a simple landscape replica; on the contrary, thebrief for this urban park for the 21st century developed a complex program of cultural and

entertainment facilities.

La Villette could be conceived of as one of the largest buildings ever constructed a

discontinuous building but a single structure nevertheless, overlapping the sites existing

features and articulating new activities. It opposes the landscape notion of Olmstead,

widespread during the 19th century, that in the park, the city is not supposed to exist.

Instead, it proposes a social and cultural park with activities that include workshops,

gymnasium and bath facilities, playgrounds, exhibitions, concerts, science experiments,

games and competitions, in addition to the Museum of Science and Technology and the City

of Music on the site. At night during the summer, the broad playing fields become an open-

air movie theater for 3,000 spectators. The park currently accommodates around eight

million visitors a year.Bernard Tschumi Architects

Fotografas: Marcelo Gardinetti

Drawings: Gentileza Bernard Tschumi Architects

Published in TECNNE Marcelo Gardinetti

Marzo de 2012.

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