Avenue Pierre-Mendès-France serves as the main entrance to the city of Montpellier. The road crosses a very heterogeneously composed territory, running alongside industrial warehouses and commercial enterprises, destined to become gradually more and more urbanized. As the site has to be taken in and understood visually in three minutes from a car driving at sixty kilometers an hour, the landscape was conceived of as an overall unit rather than as a succession of sequences. The operational project is very simple: plant twelve thousand parasol pines, the stone pine trees native to the Mediterranean. The broken lines of trees are positioned in successive arrangements, which endows them with a density of presence while obscuring a certain number of undesirable views. The windings of the road have been accentuated, while its dimensions narrowed, both in such a way as to limit the speed of vehicles. The entrance into Montpellier thus becomes a unified landscape of more sweeping scope, with a pine forest in the background framing views of the city and countryside.