The transformation of the Maison de la Radio's surroundings provided the opportunity of placing the building within a landscape cut to its measure and up to its standards, while reconnecting it with the Seine. The challenge lies in transforming how the building is perceived, how its magnitude is approached, and how to deal with a certain severity in its composition. Beyond just arranging a new plant environment around it, the creation of a new public space that matches the scale of the building and its neighborhood was necessary.

Whereas formerly the Maison de la Radio's perimeter area was divided up by into a series of successive levels, it is here brought back together by a continuous topography evoking the natural slope of the hillsides around the Seine. A “canopy” in which the building literally floats is created out of relatively small-sized trees. The new garden takes on the appearance of a mysteriously dimensioned landscape, a planted ground with a thin, yet dense texture, to all appearances uniform. A miniature forest evoking a sort of transposed nature.

The distancing effect of the circular building's placement in the middle of the site, set back from the surrounding streets, was deliberately attenuated through the creation of numerous pathways through the garden. The innervation of pastures countlessly crossed by animals served as a model for the imagining of these pathways. Situated around the main squares fronting the building, the garden is thus made up of a branching structure, where everything is accessible but where no one pathway has precedence. The multiple paths, of varying width and sometimes indeed very narrow, crisscross the garden, connecting the various access points. They can provide shortcuts as well around the site's corners. An abundant plant ground cover serves in concealing the presence of these paths in the undergrowth from a distance, giving the surprising impression of numerous walkers traversing a nature left untouched.