France, Indre et Loire, Loire valley listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, houses on stilts in the “Cour du Petit Pressoir” district (1993) by architect Alain Gourdon, this district obtained the gold medal in the Urban responses category of the Innovative houses challenge in 2013, silver medal from the great development price in 2015, awarded in 2016 in the Building in flood-prone competition of the Ministries of Ecology and Housing

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