Located in the extension of the town of Cornebarrieu, the Monges-Croix du Sud neighborhood should eventually bring together nine hundred housing units around a predominately rolling landscape, characterized today by substantial wooded areas.

The neighborhood is designed around a central park. Its buildings blend into the vegetation from slightly raised platforms, conceived as terraces. The idea is to create an open landscape whose “fencing” will be the woods and in which the interior framework, conceived of as a kind of minor parkway, will accommodate bicycles and allow for immediate access to the archipelago the different residences make up.

Not only with regards to its programatic use but also to its landscape composition, the neighborhood is mixed, bringing together collective housing complexes, contemporary residences, public, private, and communal spaces. The twelve hectare park will play an absolutely central role.

Designed to serve as an inhabited space, the park is conceived not as a classic wooded area, but rather as a piece of the countryside. Traces of the landscape, as well as the materials that make it up, are therefore “transposed” to render the setting habitable. The site is therefore within a setting of preserved nature, and designed as what could be, in Toulouse, one of the first sustainable neighborhoods. Blended into this setting, the architecture's basic elements come to highlight and distinguish the neighborhood.