项目场地位于法国滨海艺术中心（Esplanade de France）圣埃蒂安车站（St-Etienne station）对面，是圣埃蒂安地形较低的区域。作为ZAC Châteaucreux的中心区域，该场地连接了附近社区与城市的横向轴线，并引导着通向市中心的线路。项目独特的地理位置结合其规模与象征意义，使其在城市建设中拥有了特殊的地位。

▼项目概览，overview © Salem Mostefaoui

Located across from the St-Etienne station on the Esplanade de France, the influence of the intervention at the heart of the ZAC Châteaucreux is a link between neighborhoods and horizon lines, a low point in the topography of St-Etienne in front of a preferred route to the city center. Combined with the scale of the project and the symbolic value of the program, this unique location gives the project a special status in the construction of the city.

▼项目远眺，突出于城市肌理中，overlook, standing out in urban texture © Salem Mostefaoui

该项目遵循了当代城市建设理念，即在城市中构建有节奏的多用途空间，以此减少线性空间，提升空间的可发展性及可变化性。项目的目标是将社区的大型商业体嵌入到复杂的城市动态环境中，成为有活力的大型城市不可或缺的一部分。因此，该项目一层采用了开放性布局，旨在提升空间的连续性与融入性，使其兼顾对比与统一，并在山丘与平原及上下城镇之间建立起联系。

to the contemporary idea of the construction of the city that leads to the creation of rhythms, of multipurpose spaces contributing to the realization of a less linear environment, able to evolve and mutate. The goal is to embed the large commercial component of the neighborhood in a more complex urban dynamic, made of interlocking assemblies essential to any large and vibrant city. Thus, the project offers an open floor plan, initiating continuity and affiliations, creating links between polarity and panoramas, hills and plains, lower and upper town.

▼建筑临近繁忙的街道，buildings next to busy street © Salem Mostefaoui