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"When thousands of athletes move into the Olympic Village on the outskirts of
Paris next month, they’ll be staying in buildings that were ultimately designed
for another use: to become part of a sustainable new neighborhood. It’s the
opposite of what has happened in previous Olympics, when cities have tried to
figure out what to do with relics of the Games as an afterthought.
“It’s not that we’re reusing things and transforming them into housing,” says
architect and urban planner Anne Mie Depuydt, founder of the design firm UAPS,
who served as the coordinating architect for one section of the Olympic
Village. “It’s a new neighborhood, and we made sure that within the apartments
and the office buildings we can adapt them to receive the athletes for the
Olympics.”
In past Olympics, she says, the temporary housing built for athletes has been
small, and has sometimes been reused as student housing. But the new
neighborhood was designed to later have a normal mix of uses—rental housing,
apartments for sale, social housing, student housing, offices, and a ground
floor that will have cafes, shops, and other uses."
Via
What Could Go Right?: People Power
https://theprogressnetwork.org/2024-elections-update/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
