La Première Tour Multimodale, Strasbourg

Living at height can be syno­ny­mous with well-being. Living high up can be a way of recon­nec­ting with the ele­ments, with nature and with your­self. Living at height can mean wal­king, strol­ling, drea­ming, slo­wing down, moving. Living at height can be an invi­ta­tion to reclaim urban space as a sen­sory expe­rience.

In a novel approach, one of the towers is mul­ti­mo­dal, allo­wing resi­dents to enter or leave their homes via a plan­ted out­door path. The height of the tower is an exten­sion of the park, with the vege­ta­tion sprea­ding upwards from the ground, crea­ting a land­scape path that can be explo­red from the out­side. At each level, there are plan­ted and sha­red spaces, connec­ted to each other, islands of cool­ness where you can relax, admire the views, seek shade or light depen­ding on the sea­son or time of day. This walk, this out­door route, allows eve­ryone to redis­co­ver a sense of the hori­zon, a sense of body and space, the bene­fits of phy­si­cal exer­cise, but also to meet their neigh­bours and recon­nect with the ele­ments. And to live in the city, as if in a coun­try land­scape.