The exhibition “NO LIMIT” is a long-term study on the urban integration of the périphérique, and provides fresh views on the Parisian ring road by suggesting possible changes working on, under and even against this piece of infrastructure. Study models, prints and videos help visitors visualise changes in the urban landscape along the road.
As opposed to the negative and simplistic images often propounded regarding the ring road, the young urban architecture practice TVK*, who undertook this study for the town planning officials of the City of Paris and are also the guest curators for this exhibition, view the périphérique, the most often used motorway in the world, as a border both in the historic and the geographic sense and recognise that it can very well father many other developments.
The exhibition reviews this often abandoned area and provides proper geographical mapping. In this manner, the many relationships between the road and the city. 16 “metropolitan identities” are introduced along this theme of which six are then are examined in greater detail and used to demonstrate potential transformations of the area surrounding the road. It goes without saying that the road’s principle value, that of a large open metropolitan space, much like the Seine in the days of old, is not forgotten.
* Laureats of the” Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes” and the young urban planner award “Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes”
