HOTEL DIEU

The redevelopment project for the Hôtel-Dieu in Clermont-Ferrand aims to transform a closed-off historic site into a new part of the city, one that is open and connected to the urban center. The project builds on the existing structure to reconnect with the city center’s street grid and built environment, ensuring the transformation fits seamlessly into the local history.

The former hospital complex is becoming a mixed-use neighborhood where housing, public spaces, and an urban park intertwine. The project extends the site’s original ambition—to provide an environment conducive to health and convalescence—by re-establishing a strong presence of vegetation and landscaping.

A vast, defining park, connected to the Lecoq Garden and existing green corridors, restores a strong landscape identity to the site. This “inhabited woodland” becomes the central element of the project, organizing uses and pathways.

Along Vercingétorix Avenue, the mix of housing types fosters social and typological diversity by combining multi-unit housing, single-family homes, and shared spaces. Architectural features—terraces, walkways, dual-aspect apartments, and rooftop gardens—strengthen the direct connection between residents and nature.

The project as a whole bridges the gap between the city center and new developments, reconciling heritage, urban density, and renaturation, within a framework of respectful and adaptive transformation of the historic site.