SAIGE DISTRICT — DISTRICTS OF TOMORROW

Conceived as a pilot project, it explores new ways of transforming large housing complexes by leveraging their structural and urban qualities. The project is organized around two main interventions. The first involves excavating the building to create an interior landscape structured by a temperate vertical street, thus revealing the structural potential and architectural identity of Jean Dubuisson’s work. The second introduces extensions around the first two levels, forming an active and modular base that reconnects the tower to the life of the neighborhood. This approach is part of a broader vision of the renovation of large housing complexes, conceived as a progressive, evolving, and participatory process. Rather than a radical transformation, the project favors gradual interventions on the existing buildings: phased rehabilitation, reuse of structures, temporary occupations, and the progressive opening of the ground floors to new uses. Additional construction also allows for the relocation of residents who wish to move in and accommodates new programs.