Chantenay Quarry, a unique and unusual place in the Nantes landscape, helps to mark the Brittany furrow, which extends 250 km from Nantes to the Pointe du Raz. At the local scale of Nantes, it is a channel of stones that extends more than 1,200 m from the bottom of rue de l'Hermitage to the pebbles at the end of rue Joseph Cholet.The development project responds to the urban plan of Bas-Chantenay, designed around 3 routes: the hillside, the plain, and the river. Misery Quarry constitutes one of the junction points of these 3 routes. At the meeting point between the 2 geographical monuments that constitute the furrow and the Loire River,the site offers an extraordinary place as much by its materials,viewpoints, microclimate, and history, as by its urban location.The garden is first and foremost conceived as a unique, open space, one of connections and interface, in the image of an urban ecotone, at all scales of territory: between granite and water, between hills and valley, between upstream and downstream, between activities and habitats, between different eras of formation of the city, between wild spontaneous vegetation of a quarry and the cultivated gardens of Schwob Square, between different gradients of humidity (from very dry to aquatic), between the different parks and squares that integrate it.
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