The Toulouse School of Architecture has redesigned Plaisance-du-Gers
Pierre Fernandez, director of the Toulouse school of architecture, has always been involved in sporting, cultural and political events in the bastide.
Thanks to him and to the proposal of the mayor of Plaisance Patrick Fitan, 4 students of the last year spent their architectural diploma before the summer by carrying out projects in the town. A work of surveys and reflection was also carried out for months in Marciac by other students of the same school.
Accompanied by Juan Carlos Rojas-Arias, professor in this school of architecture, three of the new graduate architects, Emilie Barelaud, Clara Lailler and Chloé Legay (the 4th, Quentin Pardimène, who could not come), presented last month, in the hall of the town hall, their reflections and projects on the possible arrangements of the town. Their long analytical work and their proposals focused on gentle circulation in the village, outside the axes used by cars. A reflection also on the role of water, river and canals, to be highlighted and finally visions on several developments of public spaces.
The work of these 4 students resulted in various projects relating as much to non-built spaces and the banks of the Arros as to the intergenerational site of the presbytery garden or the project of the city of the organ at the large mill. In their presentations, these young architects showed different approaches, sometimes for the same subject.