is there any valid project for the edge that is not about the centre? the project tackles the problematic power relations created by urbanisation - authority and subjection, affluence and scarcity, mobility and lethargy. with a roof in the air and some marks on the ground La Halte is a micro-institution of public shelters that connect the neighbourhoods and communes of peripheral France. through strategic yet minimal gestures, it wouldn't create new social practices but acknowledge and strengthen existing ones.