The Mies commune wishes to enhance its Sorbier sector by installing new, multi-purpose, public facilities and redesigning its open spaces. For the local community, the Sorbier district is an important meeting place and site for activities. Yet it is marked by a series of projects built next to each other with no coherent overall vision. The new redevelopment project proposed here gives a clear identity back to the sector concerned by the competition, not only by redefining it but also by connecting it with the surrounding areas.

A coherent and convincing response comes, in principle, from a simple and clearly identifiable public space project. The work proposed here is based on three of the site’s existing strong geometries: the football field, the tennis courts and the changing rooms. These three elements delineate the public space as an elongated trapezoid. This form becomes the basis for Sorbier’s new identity, with a tree-lined path that links the site’s various functions. It should be noted that, to make the project more legible, the clay tennis courts have been moved to the south of the site next to the new tennis courts.

In line with the commune’s wish to broaden the range of cultural, social and sports public facilities available, the layout proposed here includes an indoor tennis court and a large multi-purpose entrance hall. Positioned as a direct extension of the indoor tennis court, the hall is capable of hosting local events of all kinds.

Consideration was also given to the role of the trees and their arrangement in the new layout. The idea here is not to enclose the public space and so emphasize its trapezoid shape, but rather to use the trees as the "backbone" of the site. Planted along a 7.5 m wide zone, they perform several functions. On a regional level, they perpetuate the form created by the Le Torry river and, on a district level, they act as a green screen masking the commune’s waste collection centre, while at the same time defining a soft mobility access corridor.