"Living infrastructure": that is what engineer-architect Marc Mimram is offering in his study carried out in partnership with Lafarge. Generally poorly perceived, infrastructure is too often experienced as a necessary evil in cities. It is time to reconcile infrastructures and inhabitants!
Four bridges, four cities |
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Bridges, the ultimate infrastructure, lend themselves to the principle of this study. Marc Mimram proposes four innovative bridges suited to specific cities:
Lafarge and concrete in architectural thinking In the context of the study carried out by Marc Mimram, Ductal® ultra-high performance concrete appears to be the ideal physical solution for creating the engineer-architect's light and inventive forms.
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![]() Case studyMarc Hatzfeld, sociologist and observer of suburbs Marc Hatzfeld confirms the poor perception of infrastructures. "Cities create a tension between two groups of players, decision-makers and inhabitants, which generally do not meet." According to him, the answers to the problem of seclusion necessarily involve a policy which dedicate space and the role of infrastructures to repair, revive and renew the urban fabric which has been forgotten or not completed. "Articulating flows and functions in the infrastructure must favor appropriation by the inhabitants, opening up and reconciliation of the city with its infrastructure," he adds. |