Our intervention for the André-Meunier garden, a space mostly consisting of hardscape, aimed at maintaining its undeniable spatial qualities while rendering it more habitable. A large lawn, traversed by several pathways in the manner of classic British and American campus design,, is dotted with groves in which children's games can be housed. The surrounding parking lots, parasitical objects in their previous uncontrolled proliferation, are rearranged into a simple, efficient, and subtle organization.

This elementary project, elementary in the most positive sense of the word, brings into relief the qualities of the space while bringing up to date its possible uses. It thus falls within the approach adopted by Michel Desvigne in the progressive clarification of the landscape guidelines for the city of Bordeaux. The André-Meunier garden belongs to those “prototype” projects which help determine which materials and which methods of spatial composition should be used in the future. And as such, it is an illustration of how official guidelines can function not so much as regulations, but as a series of experiments.