Caroline Dethier & Jonathan Renson

This project’s programme requires the integration of a vast number of PME, as well as shops and a
museum.
One of the primary and basic aims was to preserve the Vaux Sous Chevremont’s scale generated by 19th
- century dwellings.

Subsequently, the recreated small island is integrated into the existing construction through the
surroundings of one-family oriented houses, the internal space of which paves the way for the opening of
a PME bar by the park. This diversity of functions gives permanent life to the project and is animated
by a lush vegetation coming from the private gardens.

The TGV’s caesura is annihilated by the empty space. The concrete shell is skipped indeed (via the public
garden) opening in that way perspectives on “La Vesdre”. The chocolate museum “Galler” and its tasting
room, the museum of the Vesdre’s valley, shops and the vegetation all breathe life into this relaxing
space.
At the intersection between “la Vesdre” (historical element of the foundation of Vaux) and the TGV
(disturbing element but also source for the future), you can find the museum of the Valley’s professions.
This point is loaded with great symbolism stemming from earth and water so as to underscore a past era.
Trace of the past times floating into the future.

The cohabitation between small-scale houses (new and existing houses, party spaces, RAVEL stop) and
more important buildings makes for a delicate control between the real density, voluntarily high, and the
impressed density. The creation of real PME machines (modulation, profitability and verticality) increases
humanism dramatically (green private and public spaces benefit both the new constructions and the
existing ones), but keep a wide density.

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