On one side of the departmental 310, there is Grande Borne, an immense triangle of 90 ha with its 3, 4 or 5 storey buildings in the shape of a serpentine and its some 3,400 housing units.
On the other, there is the Patios district, 206 single-storey individual houses with right angles, installed in a staggered pattern, around walkways and tree-lined pedestrian spaces where we come across works of art and whose facades multicolored are covered with glass paste mosaic tiles.
These two utopian architectural districts that emerged around 1970 have nothing in common, except an architect, Émile Aillaud.
But an exterior insulation project threatens the emblematic facades of these houses to which the inhabitants are attached.
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