The proposal responds to the brief and the site as a symbiotic fusion between architecture, landscape and infrastructure. The concept is that of structure which springs from the preserved facade, enhancing the connection of the past to the future, and envelops a cultural centre with a flexible performance hall, a cafe, and a viewing pod which rises from the complex allowing the visitors to enjoy in the inspirational views of the art district of Montmartre. The intent is a building ecology, where there is a strong correlation between the object and the environment with a reference to the metabolic structures of plants and humans. It is a translation of the fragility found in a delicate leaf and the study of the metabolic reactions such as the use of daylight and wind . The building then becomes a semi- living structure which, in the same way as the leaf, is shaped by the context and the environmental factors of daylight and wind.
