Projects

Building with earth to adapt to unstable terrain
A vital part of the defensive triptych designed by Vauban to enclose the Gironde (together with the Blaye citadel and fort Pâté), fort Médoc, comprising a grassed earth enclosure backing onto the estuary, is built upon marshy land bordering the...

2009 - Phillipe Prost Study

2012 - guideline plan

2012 - archaeological survey

2013 -2023 –work carried out

Surface area inside the fortified city: 15ha

Contracting authority: commune of Longwy

Implementation: 20 years

Number of inhabitants (INSEE 2011): 14,628

Contractor: Philippe Prost Architectural firm

Study carried out by 2009

• Altitude: 1 050 m
• Number of inhabitants: 154 (recensement INSEE 2011)
• Number of inhabitants Guillestrois community of communes: 5 500
• Surface area within the walled city: 16 ha
• Administrators subscribed: Commune of Mont-Dauphin (30 ha), Centre for National Monuments (proporty of ministry for...

English Heritage, owner of 400 sites in the United Kingdom, has an active volunteering policy. In fact, heritage preservation relies only partially on public funds and very strongly on driving forces led by volunteers. In 2012-2013, more than 1,000 volunteers carried out 62,000 hours of work, broken...

Innovations of Vauban, the first bastioned towers flanking a protective city wall were constructed in Besançon from 1687. The bastioned tower of Chamars was constructed on the rock, on the river bed, between 1687 and 1691. Following a restoration during the year 2008, it was opened to visitors for...