Marengo urban district , Toulouse
The Media Library of Toulouse is the symbolic building of the Marengo District urban renewal, a link between past and future, bordering the historic center's urban structure, protector of a modern space that builds up on the existing city's layers.
- The building asserts the Jaurès-Jolimont main metropolitan axis, it punctuates it without interrupting its flow, it strengthens the perspective and enhances the architecture as an urban fact. It integrates through a unifying outer layer the complex and diverse program's several components.
- Two volumes, connected underground and in the sky, are framing the main axis. There are crowned by a belvedere-roof, which plays an exceptional role: from there, the city offers itself to one's stare. Alive day and night, the Marengo Gate becomes Wilson's square counterweight, in order to better revive the Jean Jaurès' paths.
- It's at said paths' end that the edifice rises from a lower level garden, opening itself toward it. The main axis crosses above the garden thanks to a footbridge that becomes a square, where meetings and distributions occur, the strong link and focal point between Place Carrée and the Jean Jaurès paths.
