The Millau highway viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Tarn river valley for a length of 2,460 meters. The implementation of this piece of infrastructure within a valley largely abandoned, and profoundly affected by a crisis in agriculture, relied on the utilization of extensive technical means and elaborate logistics. The construction sites set up for five years for the building of the viaduct, along with their access roads for trucks, storage yards for materials, areas for the prefabrication of concrete columns, etc., will leave their mark on the landscape, continuing to structure the territory well after the completion of the work.

The challenge of the project lies in addressing the ongoing development and progress of the construction work, and its impact on the territory. Contemporary landscape arrangements were proposed, which were based on the historical realities of the site and which sought to take advantage of the permanent state of building. Through the decryption of aerial photographs, traces were discovered of ancient hedgerows dividing up the land, as well as the imprint of earthen paths and ditches that have since disappeared in the vegetation. The road network and storage areas were carefully set up within these existing traces, adapting to and revealing the ancestral territorial organization.

With their reinvestment, the agrarian forms will endure and outlast the construction work. Following the departure of the massive amount of machinery, the homogenous planting of these spaces within an otherwise fallow area will remain as witness of the agricultural landscape.