BRUTALISM AND COMMUNITY INTERSECT
10 Jun 2025
Place Pouchet is an example of a cultural centre at the cross-section of urbanisation, embracing its brutalist position under the highway with a complementarily look, instead choosing to soften the surrounds by the sense of community it brings.
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The Social and Cultural Center Porte Pouchet coexists with the infrastructure, a micro-building confronting urban mega-scales to trigger new urban developments at the scale of the residents.
The Social Center allowed us to reexamine the spaces of urban disruption marked by the coexistence of humans and infrastructure and provide a human-scale response in a place hostile to social activity and the integration of environmental issues.
Porte Pouchet contributes to opening up the neighborhood by creating inter-neighborhood and inter-municipal links, in conjunction with the cities of Clichy and Saint-Ouen.
PLACE POUCHET SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE
LOCATION Paris, France
ARCHITECT MCBAD architecture & urban design
PHOTOGRAPHY Julien Hourcade
