In the 1800’s, De Villemessant, owner and manager of the newspaper "Le Figaro", turned Le Touquet’s dunes and forest into a hunting estate. Helping Le-Touquet to became known as Paris-Plage. Throughout its history, the city grew

and developed becaming one of the most welcoming and atractive seaside resorts in Europe, mostly among english and french people. Althought, despite the preserving heritage of the past, Le Touquet seems to be again under the shadow, and an image renewal of the city is necessary.

This project seeks, by creating new functions and places of interest, a new way of interpret and live the beach and the city as a common place and give to Le Touquet

an image of a water front experience city.

Thus, the project proposes a net of beach infraestructures, providing beach shelters, toillets, cafés and restaurants, some cultural equipments a cultural center and artist studios along the promenade, and some leisure equipments as a nautic center and natural pools. 

Conceptualy, the project seeks to recreate the dunes topography and create some ground elevations, in order to create and chanel different views, allowing at the same to overcome the different hight between the beach and the promenade.

Despite the heritage, the promenade in Le Touquet is disqualified and quite undervalued. Therefore, the project aims to eliminate the circulation of dense traffic and parking along the beach promenade and redesign the entire promenade that were the weakest point of the city. So the new promenade want to relate with the city and be part of it. In this new area, Le Touquet inhabitants can enjoy cycling paths along a dense green corridor, where vegetation are the elements that define the field of project and design spaces.

The connectivity with the city center were other weaknesses in Le Touquet, since the waterfront promenade was disconnected from the rest of the city. In this sense, the project involves the removal of the traffic in some streets that provide access to the city center, as the street market, for example. Thus the creation of pedestrian streets, the citizens can toggle between the city center and the entire waterfront promenade.

Another important point of the project was to keep the views of the city perpendicular streets to the beach, and establish new points of view, mainly from the warter promenade to the city. Thus the project creates a gesture of dunes, that provides new equipments and beach supplies, in which by its terraces new points of view towards the city are established.