Located very close to the Genoese city, at the intersection of the two founding axes of the city’s development, the Charles De Gaulle square is a nevralgic center of the city. The Napoléon course and the Grandval one trace back to the historic center. Like the urban development Cartesian axes, they define the main infrastructures of the modern city as the limit and rupture of the territory.
The urban form of the city center is created from this square. These two axes are almost perpendicular, like in Roman cities. The Cours Napoléon provides a wide opening. The layout, organized along two orthogonal street routes, delimits large urban areas.
This urban element, pinched between the founding axes and the coastline, constitutes an emblematic axe. The thickness of this line to be reconquered is characterized by this linear space which raises the question of the relationship between habitat and the sea.