The use of materials, such as stone and brick, which time embellishes, allowed the team to juggle with contrasts and anecdotal constructions producing a concert of rhythms, counterpoints and fugues. The roof is an open-air promenade conceived as a kinetic sculpture museum, which looks out towards the urban landscape and in towards the magical central space. The space inside this peristyle provides a suitable volume for the various activities. The inner boundary of the forest is marked by a slender, covered and transparent colonnade which is broken in the middle by a carpet of vegetation that creates a passage and a perspective which corresponds to the second axis of the project. It also contains small squares open uniquely to the sky, and small, hidden corners in a labyrinth of multiple pathways. The outer wall of the garden encloses a geometric forest, resembling an immense vegetative building, whose rows of pillars – the baroque trunks of trees supporting vaulted arcs and lintels of greenery- create paths overhung by branches. The stipulation that the famous trou, a square pit in the south-east corner of the site intended to accommodate the shopping centre, was to be preserved, prevented the development of a transversal axis in the final project. The scheme presents two central perpendicular axes stretching from one side of the park to the other. Its dramatic character was in keeping with the best baroque architectural tradition that allowed citizens to be actors and audience at the same time. This central space was designed to be multi-purpose: a meeting place par excellence and the natural setting for open-air spectacles.
The vegetation, denser and more luxuriant in the first projects, surrounded a central space, oval in the first plans and in the form of an amphitheatre in the final project. To complete the frame around this rectangular green space, and to render it harmonious, we suggested a U-shaped construction, circling the perimeter of the streets Rambuteau, Pierre Lescot and Berger. The preexistent elements which determine the boundaries of the site are the Bourse du Commerce, Saint Eustache Church and the buildings still extant in the streets Berger, Sauval, Clemence Royer and Coquillière. The winning project by RBTA structures the existing amorphous space as a rectangular form, which in turn is treated as a grand geometric garden sculpted à la française.
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