International EUROPANDOM competition Constructing the town in the French tropics Ways of life and tropical architecture The EUROPANDOM competition is aimed at architects under the age of 45 who are being asked to find innovative architectural and urban responses to the relevant problems on the following four selected sites in the French Overseas Departments. Guadeloupe: Cour-Charneau Les Abymes Urbanisation of an urban freeway French Guiana: Mont-Baduel in Cayenne Densification of a diffuse town Martinique: Le Vauclin Modernisation of a country suburb Réunion: Ravine Blanche in Saint-Pierre Enhancement of a housing estate on the coast An ideas competition followed by implementations, EUROPANDOM, through innovative projects and a number of exemplary implementations, is an opportunity to create new openings in the field of design and production of housing in the four French overseas departments concerned. While taking into account the constraints imposed by production in quantity needed to respond to the serious lack of social housing, is it possible to imagine other types of residential housing scheme that can be a form of transition between community tradition and urban ways of life? How can forms of urban housing be conceived that are compact, linked to public services, and at the same time maintain a relationship with nature and the environment? How can EUROPANDOMs urban and architectural projects be incorporated into a more open production system? How, in the processes of conception and implementation underlying these projects, is it possible to give impetus to co-ordination between a whole range of players: - on an urban level, by a better insertion of housing into the town; - on an architectural level, by a reflection on the form of housing in relation to ways of, and different forms of, appropriation; - on a construction level, by proposing composite modes of construction? EUROPANDOM is organised by the French Secretariat d'Etat à l'Outre-Mer; Secretariat d'Etat au Logement; Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine; Plan Urbain, Construction et Architecture, with the collaboration of EUROPAN, and in partnership with the RFO (Réseau France Outre Mer). Closing date for registration: 15 September 1999 Closing date for entries: 29 October 1999 Information: EUROPANDOM 53 rue des deux communes 93100 Montreuil France Tel: +33 (0)1 55 86 95 55 Fax: +33 (0)1 42 87 59 95 E-mail : e_pandom@club-internet.fr Web: http://www-europan.gamsau.archi.fr Press: Mireille Apel-Muller Tel: +33 (0)1 40 81 24 50 Fax: +33 (0)1 40 81 24 58

 

 

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