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At four cardinal points the terrain of Louvre Lens museum is joined to the territories on several km by what remains of the cavaliers.  As such the museum park irrigates the country in-depth the same as the garden cities so singular are all naturally brought to the threshold of the museum.

This elongated form, print of the distribution method of industrial flows, deflected the manner of installing itself in the ground plate.  The abandoned rails were the premier niches of vegetable recolonization that in 20 years of abandonment have engaged a pioneer forest to the west and pedestrian corridors between fragmented and controlled territories by the mines of the hold of the border cavaliers.

It is then a question of articulation through this program of museum park that which we established during the competition, the vegetable dynamic that primed the attractively of the terrain, the cultural dynamic with the museum itself, the event platforms, the soft ties of cavaliers and the living memory of the mining base of the cycle of plant materials to valued oils as an economic resource, then in an inverted symmetry, of the oil to the valued plant as heritage resource.

This vertical slice of schist soil, basically that which is deposited by the mining activity and redesigned to form an enclosure, is open to moss colonization and in particular to the consolidation of the edges towards a perineal wood.

In the manner of threads of microorganisms who fix to atmospheric nitrogen in order to transform it into nitric nitrogen, the surface of the ground is perforated with pockets of draining stones, mineral storage, at the same as clusters of drops that capture water, retain it, infiltrate it and bring the excess to the strip gardens.  These perforations will be the favoured substrate of mosses which have the ability to capture and to fix heavy metals to the soils and actually to reduce the ambient dust.

This regular perforation of mineral surfaces around the foyer allows for an articulated transition from blossoming prairie clearings, to the mineral surfaces around the foyer by densifying towards a level of the Shrubs formations and in order to finish in the pioneer forest.

Among the reception installations, the benches are  green canopies, grass hemlines around sand beaches on the parvis or yet monoliths on excavated leaning places in the lais gardens.  An excuse to picnic, supporting pedagogical association to the temporary exhibits of the galleries, gardens as memories of plant cycle to oil or simply neighbourhood gardens exposed due south.

These micro gardens are lais (fords), polysemous concept from the French language that transverses temporality, the tools and uses as it designates as well a terrain where waters of sea or of rivers are left in its retraction, as a young tiller leaves a cutting in order to become tree in a forest of tall trees, as a towpath, as a stone-cutter hammer, as a narrative poem from the middle ages, etc.

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