URBASTUDIOURBANISME & ARCHITECTURE

Tucked behind the train station, just steps from the city centre and along the banks of the Liane, Bréquerecque is one of Boulogne-sur-Mer’s quiet districts. At once isolated and strategic, it has long been shaped by industrial logics — and now finds itself in a moment of suspension. With the fire station set to relocate and several large plots lying vacant, the time has come to imagine a new story.

This project does not seek to erase. It builds on what’s already there — the traces, the gaps, the in-betweens. It sees the brownfields as reserves, the voids as opportunities. Bréquerecque can once again be a productive neighbourhood, but on its own terms. No standard boxes, no ready-made formulas. A district where workspaces, specific housing types and hybrid uses can coexist — provided we design for cohabitation, porosity and continuity.

What emerges is a more frugal urban fabric, grounded in the existing. A responsive, evolving neighbourhood, woven from new alliances between living, working, landscape, and collective storytelling.