The Porte Saint Denis project can be in this aspect of the project the vehicle of a more urban / behavioral study of this area of Paris, questioning the role and the position of the gate itself and the ‘place’ surrounding it. The brief is to invent a usage / architecture / urban activator that places emphasis on an existing activity picked from the site. This aspect of the project should provide (the beginning of) an answer to the question of the potential for a new or revised ‘social contact’ in our times of hostility and uncertainty, a conversion that architects, artists, designers or associated disciplines must interrogate and respond to.
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