The design for the parking lot of the interpretation center of the Alesia Museumpark is truly an act of acupuncture. Thousands of trees were planted.  The challenge here lay not in concealing the parking lot but rather in making it a place of discovery for the territory.

The parking lot is organized by forested groves, whose irregular frame creates a series of grassy spaces. These generously sized clearings are wide enough for comfortable pedestrian use, as is so often not the case in most parking lots, where cramped, narrow paths run directly behind rows of cars. Here one can take their time driving their car.  Here is a space for pedestrians.

The parking lot successfully fulfills its practical function, while at the same time bringing to mind a walk through the countryside. In response to the rolling countryside that surrounds it, it takes on the shape of a “wooded backdrop” interspersed with successive clearings, from which the view extends towards the horizon. The planned forested areas are conceived of as a miniaturized transplantation of the larger forested areas surrounding. The vast landscape is thus interiorized, and the two scales come to naturally interweave.