The land is located in the district of Ivry port. This district located along the Seine is the largest district of Ivry, the one that used to make the city wealth with its port and its many businesses. Lot 5C3 is divided into two areras, one of which presents a built heritage, two halls, to be preserved, where to accommodate activities. The two zones are separated by a pedestrian-oriented public thoroughfare that connects Rigaud Street and Jean Jaurès Avenue.

Firstly, given the urban layout of the existing building, we propose to turn it into a "landscape building", i.e. one that accommodates both large and small scales. This desire is motivated by our intuition to compose "in the service of" and not according to prerequisites related to a constructive or formal logic. This approach is based in the continuity of a work on subtelty, lightness and proportions. The whole project is worked according to the golden proportion. The golden section does not bring a poetic or lyrical idea; it does not inspire the theme in any way; it is not creative but a balancing act.

The "Grid": it is the emblem of modernity of the project, it promotes silence by its absence of hierarchy, it is structural and not rhetorical. The same module based on the golden section as a regulating line: 1.6180 .
Thanks to silence, it favours a better adaptation to the different heights of the existing buildings, the programme and the urban regulations. The grid nevertheless gives the buildings a figurative ornamentation, leaving space for different lifestyles on balconies, loggias and terraces. In this way, it mitigates the expression of monumentality by rendering the modernity of the original form somewhat domestic. A domestic modernity.

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