HAVRE TRAMWAY

“Whoever, without betraying modern materials or programs, produced a work that would seem to have always existed, that in a word would be banal, I say that he could stand to be satisfied.”

(Auguste Perret)

It was in Le Havre that the doctrine of structural classicism was applied to the scale of a city, determining its general morphology, from the façade bay to the whole, via the building, the block and the public space, based on a modulation grid of 624 cm corresponding to the distance between load-bearing points and resulting from a search for optimization within the framework of a building industrialization policy.

The new project does not involve ennobling the surface, but rather “anonymously” requalifying the space. The mesh is simply embedded in the classic road surface, preparing it for functional changes in the public space.