R4 is a territory whose urban and river-port aspects have been marked by exchanges, artists and the public. Yet it is not characterised as having any particular identity, but rather as a melting pot and a territory which is singularised by its ever-changing content.
Architects
Location
Paris, FranceArea
30,000 m2Photographs
Courtesy of Ateliers Jean Nouvel
The major challenge the creators of R4 set themselves was to ignore the traditional separation between form and content by exploiting every possible source of synergy and continuity between the architecture itself and its function.
