The results of the "Inventons la Métropole" competition launched in the spring of 2016, unveiled 51 winners (out of 420 applications) on Wednesday 18 October at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent-sur-Marne. The Greater Paris region hopes to be enriched by new centres of attraction, based on in-depth reflection on new uses, the circular economy, resilience and sustainable mobility, with a flexible and modular approach to housing. High-tech urban agriculture, biomimicry and greening are among the many architectural and technological innovations designed to encourage the return of nature and biodiversity to the city. An overview of the winners.
UP'MAGAZINE - OCTOBER 2017
Qhe diversity of sites proposed by Inventing the Greater Paris MetropolisThe consultation process, which involved 54 sites, enabled the candidates to deploy a wide range of technical know-how and architectural innovations to produce tailor-made projects that reflect a great deal of intelligence about the place. All the sites in the consultation are intended to become emblematic places, revealing the great capacity for innovation of the Greater Paris Metropolis, vectors for the integration of new territories with the aim of creating a new metropolitan identity.
Inventing the Metropolis has attracted, alongside promising young French agencies (Encore Heureux, Muoto, Maud Caubet Architectes, Des Clics et des Calques), the great names of international architecture, some of whom have built little in France. Major names such as Sou Fujimoto, Rogers Stirk Habour & Partners, Dominique Perrault, OMA, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Snøhetta, MVRDV and Studio Gang have proposed projects of very high urban and architectural quality. The presence of heritage sites such as La Maison du Peuple in Clichy-la-Garenne and industrial sites such as the Babcock site in La Courneuve promise remarkable architectural achievements.
Key figures
Ernst and Young has carried out a study on the economic and territorial impact of the winning investment projects of the "Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris" call for projects
- The 54 winning projects are expected to generate a total investment of €7.2 billion, divided between construction works (62%), land acquisition (18%) and ancillary expenditure (20%).
- They represent a land area of 165 ha which should accommodate 2.1 million square metres distributed between 815 OOO m2 of housing (14,300 new homes), 867 OOO m2 of economic activities (including 651 OOO m2 of tertiary surfaces), 175 OOO m2 of public and private facilities and services, 86 OOO m2 of hotel facilities (2,800 rooms), 166 OOO m2 of shops and local restaurants, etc.
- The study and construction phase could lead to the creation of nearly 2,300 jobs per year in the study activities and 7,000 jobs per year in construction during the construction period, i.e. a theoretical total of 65,500 jobs over a projected period of seven years.
Architectural daring and constructive innovations
>> Emblematic site of the consultation, the Maison du Peuple in Clichy-la-Garenne, The building, which is classified as a historical monument, is a jewel of 1930s architecture. A true "mechanical jewel", this building is emblematic of the first ingenious design techniques allowing for flexible uses: market, festival hall, cinema.
People's House Project
Its restoration by the DUVAL GROUP is the object of a demanding and singular approach, giving way to a sensual and powerful architecture, signed RUDY RICIOTTI and IBA+HOLZWEG.
Made of fibre-reinforced concrete and glass, an R+30 tower is balanced next to the Maison du Peuple, the result of a constructive feat imagined by LAMOUREUX & RICCIOTTI INGENIERIE, since its exoskeleton carrying the entire building will be cast on site in a gigantic sarcophagus. It is also a material-saving architecture (eco-design followed by MILIEU STUDIO and EKOPOLIS) paying tribute to French construction know-how as Jean Prouvé did in his time. Balanced on the Maison du Peuple so as not to impact the floor of the public space, the tower will interact like a sentinel with the Cité judiciaire des Batignolles.
>> Artistic and poetic architecture in timber construction of the Argenteuil Littoral project opens onto the Seine. Through their innovative proposals, the ATELIER DU MIDI and BRICQUEVILLE reveal to the public an exceptional site, on a balcony overlooking Paris, which already inspired great names of the Impressionists such as Monet, Sisley, Caillebotte and many others.
Model of L'atelier du Midi and Bricqueville of the Argenteuil littoral project
The flagship building of the project, operated by WALK, the emblematic hotel with its views towards Paris and radiating onto the Val d'Oise, first creates a deliberate break, symbolising the gateway to the Metropolis. The project then continues with a beautiful balance between buildings and open spaces, providing a green breathing space orchestrated by AM ENVIRONNEMENT and an integral part of the site's identity.
On the banks of the Seine, Argenteuil Littoral offers a dreamlike opening to its inhabitants as well as to tourists via the architectural and artistic gesture of an unfinished footbridge, the culmination of a cultural promenade offering a staging by contemporary artists such as KINYA MARUYAMA, in a co-construction process with the inhabitants coordinated by ANAGRAPHIS and TRAIT CLAIR.
>> Developed in a very heterogeneous architectural, urban and landscape context, the project of the LINKCITY Genopole in Evryintegrates a gentle campus, in a logic of cocoon open to the city, modular, flexible and evolving. A signal building, a corner building protects the site from the noise and visual nuisance of the RN7, while the vegetation enters the heart of the campus, punctuated by visual porosities with the city.
Beyond its perfect integration into the site, the architecture and organisation of the project were designed by CHAIX & MOREL and BIDARD & RAISSI in direct relation to the image and challenges of the Genopole.
The project's constructive innovation lies in its concept of extreme modularity and its very high capacity for evolution and reversibility. The project will be built in several phases and will operate on the principle of modular cores that can be adapted at will according to changing needs and uses: sometimes offices, sometimes laboratories or clean rooms. Flexible and scalable, the second building complex on the site will be deployed in phase 2 and expandable within the campus. While the fragmentation of the volumes gives the site a dynamic image, a homogeneous facade treatment and a strong architectural identity regulate all the modules: concrete, aluminium and glass interact to create a contemporary, neat and durable facade.
>> The Balcon sur Paris project on the Villiers-sur-Marne site offers an exceptional architecture. With its construction technique by EQUILIBRIUM, its rate of vegetation (the landscape designers JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS and ATELIER PAUL ARENE have managed to vegetate more than 50% of the roofs and interior courtyards) and its responsible approach, the neighbourhood in Belvedere thus pays a fine tribute to the natural heritage of the site.
Balcon sur Paris, Europe's first high-rise district in timber construction, is the result of the joint work of talented and renowned architects with complementary architectural styles, specialising in high wooden structures, such as KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES, STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, XTU, MGA, OXO, MICHAEL GREEN ARCHITECTURE and KOZ Architects.
Un Balcon sur Paris project, near the Marne Europe station in Villiers-sur-Marne designed by Kengo Kuma
The project is a real showcase of innovation in terms of mobility, thanks to the collaboration of players such as TRANSITEC, TRANSDEV and ZENPARK, energy with SINTEO, biodiversity (the project includes the LPO), uses and programme, a pilot district that will be a reference.
Circular economy and climate change
Climate change due to the footprint of our lifestyles is well documented. 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions are energy-related, 23% of emissions are attributable to the transport sector while buildings account for 19% of emissions and 32% of global energy consumption.
The Greater Paris Metropolis is a concentration of many challenges (food, mobility, production, energy, etc.) and is therefore a wonderful area for accelerating and experimenting with solutions. Thanks to the Grand Paris Express, all the inhabitants of Greater Paris will be less than 2 km from a station in 2030, which offers a major lever for reducing car traffic emissions.
At the forefront of this field, the Greater Paris Metropolis has placed the urgency of climate action among its top priorities and is implementing a metropolitan climate-air-energy plan (PCAEM) in a proactive manner via precise objectives and concrete actions.
Placed at the heart of the Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris challenges, climate and the circular economy were the subject of innovative strategies by the candidates. Among the most noteworthy projects were Lab 21 on the Romainville site, the Triango project on the Triangle de Gonesse, Temps sur Mesure in Bagneux, Les Grands Lilas on the Fort dit de Romainville and the Antonypôle project.
>> "Laboratory for energy transition and sustainable growth", LAB21 is proposing a zero carbon, zero waste, zero fossil and fissile energy project for the ZAC de L'Horloge site in Romainville, while encouraging the return of nature and biodiversity to the city. The initiative of the developer ALSEI, theAGENCE FRANC ARCHITECTE and HORTICULTURE & GARDENS aims to generate a real dynamic of emulation of the environmental action between the different actors of the project.
LAB21 project
Greening of the site and the building, use of bio-sourced materials and respectful and modular construction techniques, compensation approach, proposal of collaborative workspaces, hosting of participative fablabs dedicated to eco-design and sustainable food, setting up of a users' charter and incentive mechanisms favouring in particular soft mobility and short circuits thanks to the integration of urban and eco-productive agriculture operated by LES SOURCIERS, recalling Romainville's agricultural and market gardening past... LAB21 accelerates the transition to more sustainable lifestyles.
>> On the Gonesse triangleBOPRO SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS and the architecture and urban planning firms RAU, SEARCH, PHILEAS, KARRES+BRANDS place the circular economy at the heart of the project Triango and are committed to developing a mixed programme including a demonstrator business district exclusively dedicated to the circular economy as well as 10,000 m² of innovative urban agriculture structures with BIGH, LATERAL THINKING FACTORY CONSULTING and URBAN CROP SOLUTIONS.
The design, development and construction of the project will be carried out in accordance with the principles of the circular economy thanks to the expertise of TURNTOO. The entire life cycle of the buildings is designed by ITF to reduce their environmental footprint. The materials used for the construction of its positive energy buildings will be chosen according to two major criteria: their energy performance and their reusability in order to produce buildings that are both sustainable and mutable. The facilities and services offered by EVERGREEN will promote the development of sustainable mobility, with KNOT's scooter parks, the provision of conventional and electric bicycles by GREEN ON and autonomous electric shuttles by WATTMOBILE, and a car-sharing service with WAYZUP.
>> Bioclimatic project, Made to measure time in Bagneux places biodiversity, low-carbon objectives and the circular economy at the heart of its design and operation. The programme includes a rooftop urban agriculture system developed with TOITS VIVANTS, including greenhouses, hydroponics and compost, as well as open-air gardens on the slab, which provide the ideal terrain for permaculture and thus promote short circuits. Frugal, the project also includes a rainwater recovery system and the reuse of demolition materials. Developed in collaboration with PARI ARCHITECTURE ECOLOGIE, the buildings in the programme offer high performance bioclimatic housing, as well as awareness-raising workshops for residents to optimise energy savings. They incorporate natural ventilation and an innovative system of phase change material inertia.
>> Incubator for collaborative and circular economy companies, Les Grands Lilas presents a strong ambition to reduce the carbon impact of the building during its construction and its life cycle on the site of the Fort of Romainville in Les Lilas.
Aiming for the highest level of excellence of the BBCA label, the CIBEX developer's project will use solar thermal and geothermal energy, will use bio-sourced materials for the renovations and constructions planned on the site, and will require a high degree of reversibility of the buildings constructed. In its operation, the project will encourage the re-use of materials, whether on the site itself or via artistic activities thanks to RESERVE DES ARTS. Designed by the urban planner SHAHINDA LANE, the architectural studios GARE DU NORD ARCHITECTURE, STUDIO MUOTO, MOOTZ & PELE ARCHITECTES, the association PEEPING TOM for the territorial anchoring and the land art artist JEAN-PAUL GANEM, the Grands Lilas project finally favours soft mobility by excluding cars from the site.
>> Ambitious demonstrator of the Swiss concept of "2000W society", the LINKCITY Antonypole project, designed by AREP, LAISNE ROUSSEL, CLEMENT BLANCHET and COLOCO, aims to reduce energy consumption by a factor of three.
The programme operates on the basis of renewable energy production and self-consumption, even offering the possibility of surplus energy storage by TESLA. It thus offers a very low carbon energy and thermal mix. In addition, there is a programme to raise awareness among the inhabitants of the eco-neighbourhood, run in conjunction with the WWF, the establishment of short food supply circuits thanks to partnerships with local associations and the zero waste distribution company NU! and an incentive for more sustainable mobility thanks to the self-service electric scooters MOBER, a car-sharing system operated by CLEM and the installation of electric recharging stations on the site.
Culture and creation as levers of innovation
Culture and creativity are at the heart of the development of Greater Paris, as demonstrated by the cultural and artistic project led by the Société du Grand Paris and the key role of the creative industries in its international influence.
At a time when innovation processes are opening up, what is the impact of culture and its capacity to drive economic and social innovation? What is its role in urban projects?
Convinced of the immense potential of art and culture in terms of integration and influence of the territories, the Metropole of Greater Paris has paid particular attention to the place given to them in the proposed projects. Among the remarkable projects in terms of creative and cultural innovation are the Maison du Peuple, Les Grands Lilas, STO Art & Design Center, La Fabriques des Cultures and Les Lumières Pleyel.
>> The Maison du Peuple was designed in 1935 by emblematic avant-garde architects and engineers and was a particularly innovative building at the time.
Listed as a Historic Monument since 1983, it uses mobile floor systems and an opening roof, which allows for an incredibly flexible use of the building. The challenge of its transformation was to bring back to life the innovation that permeates this place, which is now partially disused, by anchoring the Maison du Peuple in the 21st century. A successful challenge for the DUVAL GROUP thanks to its modular project combining citizen participation and ambitious cultural programming, around a space for presenting the permanent collections of the CENTRE NATIONAL D'ART ET DE CULTURE-GEORGES POMPIDOU, and cultural spaces designed and run by SCINTILLO, with the involvement of ARTY FARTY for cultural editorial work.
>> Les Grands Lilas has been able to offer, on the site of the Fort of Romainville in Les LilasThe project will balance the protection of this important place of memory and the cultural appropriation of the future. A Vauban-type fort that served as an internment camp for Resistance fighters in transit to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, the Fort of Romainville will host a project built around the common threads of culture and agriculture. A place for the production and dissemination of cultural works, an incubator for social economy companies, a centre for leisure and professional integration, the site will remain a green setting thanks to an artistic agri-urban park open to the public. A number of highly complementary players will carry out this project: MAINS D'ŒUVRES will run a third-party centre in the casemates, while RÉSERVE DES ARTS will ensure that the artists occupying the site re-use artistic materials. UNITED KITCHENS will offer culinary coworking. The SOLAR HÔTEL will be a unique training centre dedicated to responsible hotel management. SIMPLON.CO will take care of digital training.
>> On the Babcock industrial wasteland in La Courneuve, La Fabrique des Cultures brings together local institutions and organisations in the Greater Paris area thanks to the creation of a Pôle Image Augmentée (including COTE COURT, CINEMA 93, PERIPHERIE ET CITOYENNETE JEUNESSE, L'ABOMINABLE, ETOILE CINEMA or ENCORE L'ECRAN) and the genesis of the Grand Paris Schola (bringing together ENS ARTS DECORATIFS, ENSCI, BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS AND CERGY).
Taking culture and creation as its foundation, the project will enable the emergence of a district that is unique in its kind to date through co-programming involving the public, local economic players and inhabitants, to which is added the opening of real backstage areas for cultural production.
A marker of local industrial history in an urban context undergoing complete reconstruction, the former Babcock factory, with its 4 hectares of industrial wasteland, its remarkable architecture and volumes, offered the ideal playground for this project of unprecedented scope, led by the architect DOMINIQUE PERRAULT, ENCORE HEUREUX (prefiguration of the site) and APRES LA PLUIE (landscape designer) with the support of QUAI 36 for the cultural centre and the INTENCITY incubator.
>> At the crossroads of all the dynamics, identified as the spearhead of the Territory of Culture and CreationLes Lumières Pleyel in St DenisIt is intended to become a new centrality of the Greater Paris Metropolis. From 2023, it will house the Saint-Denis-Pleyel station - a hub for connections between lines 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the Grand Paris Express, line 13 of the Paris metro and lines D and H of the Transilien network - and will offer no less than 4,900 sq. m. of art and culture.
The Pleyel lights, in Saint-Denis
To date, permanent and semi-permanent artistic commissions are planned, as well as a cultural programme highlighting and staging the various buildings on the site, in particular through lighting creations. The artistic and cultural management of the site will be led by MANIFESTO, creator of artistic and cultural projects, and 104.
>> A showcase for culture, art and design, the STO Art and Design Center project at the Puces de St Ouen places culture and a collaborative approach at the forefront of its innovation strategy. Transforming an urban crossroads into a place of encounter, conviviality and creative synergies, it integrates local and metropolitan actors for a renewal of artistic creation methods.
The project proposes, prior to the construction site, the creation of a collective and participative work with the inhabitants of the neighbouring towers, in collaboration with the students of BEAUX-ARTS and the local association JOLI MAI, under the coordination of the cultural operator MANIFESTO. The programme also proposes creative and convivial activities aimed at encouraging the appropriation of the site by the different publics and actors of the project (JOLI MAI, ANTICAFE, OFFICE DU TOURISME DE PLAINE COMMUNE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES BEAUX-ARTS, CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY, ...) throughout its genesis and its operation
Living better
The rate of housing construction in the Greater Paris Metropolis is at an unprecedented level for 40 years. This effort, which is unique in Europe, meets the housing needs of the inhabitants and the Greater Paris Metropolis intends to play an essential role in the coordination of housing policies, with the development of a Metropolitan Housing and Accommodation Plan.
Modular and adaptable housing, use of data and connection of buildings, reduction of the carbon footprint of our homes, alternative housing, collaborative operation, quality of life, diversity, longevity and evolution of buildings... there are many avenues of experimentation for better and different living. As a priority issue for the Greater Paris Metropolis, the question of innovation through and for housing was crucial for the call for projects.
Numerous projects thus offer innovative and reproducible solutions on the scale of Greater Paris. Agile and modular programmes
>> Located in Clichy-sous-Bois, on a highly constrained site, the project Un Belvédère Métropolitain has developed an inventive model offering flexible housing, services and facilities. From the outset, the project integrates the notion of scalability and a participatory approach, in the service of residential quality and uses.
Designed by the TVK architectural firm, the project by the developer NEXITY FEREAL and the landlord EFIDIS responds to the immediate needs of the people of Clichy with a frugal and low-tech approach, and incorporates awareness-raising actions carried out by VILLE OUVERTE to control the carbon footprint and management costs of the condominiums, without taking the risk of freezing the typology of the programme. This scalability is reflected in a system of dwellings operating in disconnectable and reconnectable pairs, the adaptation of the number of parking spaces or the reversibility of the foot of the buildings, which can be converted from local services to housing if it no longer meets the needs of the residents.
>> Also very agile, L'Hospitalité Un signal dans la Ville proposes, in Kremlin-Bicêtre, a housing programme that evolves in line with lifestyles. In addition to offering flats that are delivered unfinished and fitted with removable partitions to adapt to the life cycles of a family, the project led by Altarea Cogedim includes the concept of "colonisable" terraces, a legal innovation that allows for a supervised extension of the building by 10 to 20m² on the terraces by means of a simple Preliminary Declaration of Work by the purchasers.
The Hosipitality Project
In addition to the vast private roof gardens, the project proposes common spaces of cultivated roofs, as well as a third place combining restaurants and new cultural practices. Activating energy at the heart of the project
>> Positive energy balance programme, the Ôm project in Issy-les-Moulineaux pays constant attention to the well-being of future residents. As a tribute to the creativity and modernity of the city, a forerunner in the application of the principles of the Feng Shui philosophy in a swimming pool and one of its schools, ICADE, ARCHITECTURE STUDIO and LAND'ART are achieving a first by applying these age-old principles in the construction sector, right from the project design stage.
Intended to bring prosperity, well-being and harmony to homes, Feng Shui and its philosophy were taken into account and integrated into every phase of the creation, right down to the name Ôm, symbolising the source of the universe... The project thus aims to obtain WELL certification.
Innovation through diversity :
>> The Mix'It project, led by BOUYGUES IMMOBILIER, EFIDIS and INTENCITY in the Plaine Ouest district of Noisy-le-Sec, ensures a mix of uses by proposing workshop-housing (30 m² workshop / 30 m² housing). Close to the functioning of the artist's studio, this innovative form of housing is aimed in this project at entrepreneurs of very small businesses. This hybrid solution aims both to diversify the supply of housing and to guarantee a mix of uses, while maintaining existing economic activities. This project relies on the expertise of VIVALIB and POP UP IMMO.
>> The PICHET GROUP's project, Le Coteau en Commun, offers Villejuif a habitat that is environmentally friendly and promotes intergenerational links. Close to the landscape, the structural framework of the wooden project is very flexible and can be adapted according to life cycles. The architect NICOLAS MICHELIN - ANMA and the ATELIER ALTERN (landscape designer) have designed a variable geometry habitat based on a system of shared cocoons (units of up to 30 dwellings) with an extra room of 15 m² that can be reserved on request.
Le Coteau en Commun also innovates by creating inhabited porches or perched terraces, shared between 2 or 3 dwellings, places of exchange and communal life, to which is added a programme conducive to the maintenance of an intergenerational link.
Connected housing :
>> The result of the collaboration between SOGEPROM HABITAT and VINCI IMMOBILIER with the architects DGLA, DANIEL VANICHE, MFR ARCHITECTES and the landscape designer LAND'ACTthe Village Bongarde in Villeneuve-la-GarenneThe project is designed to create a mixed neighbourhood by rebalancing the supply between private and social housing, attracting a new population and also providing a response to the realization of residential paths, thus preventing the departure of the middle classes or CSP +, due to the lack of a suitable housing offer. The project thus presents a programme of adaptable housing, responding to the residential paths of families, combined with a proposal for connected housing that makes it possible to evaluate and optimise energy and water consumption (ECOSIM), but also to improve living together thanks to mutualised delivery solutions such as connected lockers or thanks to the development of mutualised services and a mutual aid network.
Ecotone project in Arcueil
The new place of nature in the city
As a source of biodiversity, an ally in preventing and protecting against flooding, a lever for reducing heat islands, nature in the city is being adorned with new virtues that have been forgotten or ignored, offering territories a cross-cutting approach to adapting cities to climate change or preventing the major urban challenges of the future. Corridor for biodiversity, useful and productive nature, tool for resilience or for fighting climate change... without losing sight of the fact that there is no single solution or model, but rather very specific local contexts, the Greater Paris Metropolis pays particular attention to the different ways of bringing nature back into the city and to its uses.
>> The result of the association of DUNCAN LEWIS ARCHITECTURE, OXO, PARC ARCHITECTES and TRIPTYQUE, the Ecotone project in Arcueil The jury's attention was particularly drawn to its innovative use of biomimicry to meet the challenge of transforming the Côteau d'Arcueil site, located at the gateway to Paris, visible from the A6 motorway and exposed to noise and pollution.
Ecotone project
Thanks to the shared expertise of a scientific committee composed of CEEBIOS (European Centre of Excellence in Biomimicry), ENGIE LAB CRIGEN and the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, and NOVOBIOM, an expert in soil remediation, the project uses nature as a mentor rather than a constraint.
The Ecotone team blurs the boundaries between the city and nature through its architecture, which is inspired by the structural, thermal and functional qualities of natural habitats such as the bird's nest or the beehive; through its organisation, which is designed as an ecosystem in which all the programmatic elements complement each other in a circular economy; through the use of the capacities of mycoremediation to enrich fertile soils; via the use of depolluting plants on the roof and facades for water and air treatment or an innovative bio-inspired pump; via the exploration of the notion of epidermis to ensure acoustic comfort near the motorway; or via the mobilisation of renewable energies and the use of plant cover to improve the thermal quality of the building.
"Our project is to create a link between the city and nature on this privileged site and to build a building that plays the role of interface between these two environments. This transition zone between two ecosystems is called an ecotone in biology.
A global embodiment of wood construction and sustainable cities, ECOTONE will be the largest wood building in Europe. At a time of global ecological crisis, ECOTONE will become an emblem, a strong signal of the commitment of Paris and its metropolis.
ECOTONE is an accentuation of the relief, two hybrid hills that combine trees and plantations with the building. The latter takes the form of a building terraced along the slope and hollowed out by patios allowing the interior lighting of the living and working areas.
The programme will include a 65,000 m2 tertiary centre to provide a healthy and qualitative working environment for users, local shops for the benefit of the whole district, a responsible restaurant centre, a health centre and a sports centre to make the well-being of users an essential issue, and a hotel to strengthen the tourist appeal of Arcueil and meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Finally, a residence for researchers and young workers and a crèche will strengthen the intergenerational link and make Ecotone a project of solidarity.
>> The Terre d'Eaux project in Sevran, revisits our relationship with water. In this project proposed by the developer LINKCITY, the architects JACQUES ROUGERIE ARCHITECTES ASSOCIESMUOTO, MATTHIEU GELIN AND DAVID LAFON, JULIA WINDING and the landscape architects ofINTERSCENEIn the future, landscapes and buildings will be built around and from the living environment of water in this network of large landscapes that the Montceleux lands represent.
In addition to the development of a large water park, the aim is to encourage the emergence of a mixed neighbourhood, offering a high quality of life and proving to be exemplary in environmental terms. Opening up the spaces, creating continuity by linking the banks, the Terre d'Eaux project proposes landscaped paths that adapt to the water in order to rediscover the "use of slowness". Market gardens, water gardens, riparian forests, orchards, meadows and borders punctuate the organisation of the site. The project asks the buildings to adapt to the natural spaces and will draw from the water the energy necessary for the functioning of the site.
>> Le Coteau en Commun, in Villejuif, preserves the site's ecosystem and blends into the landscape thanks to the structural framework of a highly flexible wooden project designed by GAUJARD TECHNOLOGIE that adapts to the topography of the site and the life cycles of the inhabitants. From the very first design phases, the ANMA architectural studio's approach was to build compact, narrow and reasonably high buildings which, in accordance with the recommendations of the LIGUE DE PROTECTION DES OISEAUX (a member of the team), allow for the development of biodiversity by freeing up as much of the ground as possible and ensuring a high-quality living environment within the programme. Reconnecting with nature as a place of responsible production
>> Agricultural, associative and residential, the Ressources Toit project, proposed on the Armée Leclerc site in Morangis by PARIS SUD AMENAGEMENT, ATELIER PO & PO (architect) and LIVING ROOFS (urban planner and landscape architect specialising in urban agriculture), innovates through its approach of (re)reconciling urban space and agricultural activity in a spatial and social logic, by creating synergies of uses (short circuits, participative gardens, shared composters).
Convinced that agriculture can enrich the construction of the city, the Ressources Toit agri-urban ecosystem will allow the installation of a farm on a wasteland and the construction of new housing in place of the site's old industrial buildings.
Housing and community facilities, located along the residential Avenue de l'Armée Leclerc, are organised in the heart of the block, around a central shared space planted with fruit trees, which is then extended at the bottom of the plot by a diversified farm. The agricultural programme will consist of a main area of biointensive market gardening, greenhouses, a fruit hedge encircling the plot, a henhouse, an apiary and, in the long term, a grazing area. This diversified agricultural programme will function within an ecosystem logic and reciprocal contributions. The interactions will then contribute to the resilience of the system.
>> Designed by COBE and ADIM ILE-DE-FRANCE, the V.O² project in Vaucresson has the ambition of an exemplary eco-district and demonstrator in the service of environmental excellence. On the Yves du Manoir site, on the edge of the national forest, the project proposes a cohabitation between collective housing, based on bioclimatic and energy innovations, and food crops. DALKIA is setting up an innovative heat recovery system using the waste energy from the A86 tunnel located in the immediate vicinity of the site and MUGO is developing a participatory agroforestry project at the heart of the programme.
In dialogue with the urban project and its inhabitants, the cultivated land takes back its rights and creates social links, beyond the 2 tons of fruit and vegetables that will be produced each year.
The urgency of resilience
To date, 70% of the world's cities are already experiencing the effects of climate change or are at risk. The Greater Paris Metropolis is not exempt from all risks, as the great flood of the Seine last year reminded us. As a member of the 100 Resilient Cities, the Greater Paris Metropolis has a proactive policy in this area, particularly in terms of flood prevention (GEMAPI). As a result, some Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris projects have been selected for their quality in terms of resilience. Pollution risk, flood risk, quarry risk... the Greater Paris Metropolis must know how to prevent, adapt its urban projects and create the resilience of its territory. Several projects have turned these risks into remarkable opportunities for innovation and adaptation.
Controlling pollution risk
>> Intervening in the reconversion of the EIF factory site, a landscape ensemble that bears witness to the manufacturing and urban development of Montreuil (hide degreasing factory), the Oasis des Murs à PêchesThe project, led by BOUYGUES IMMOBILIER and designed by FRANCOIS LECLERC, was able to transform the constraint of heavy industrial pollution into a field for innovation. Because of the former activities carried out on the site and using aromatic solvents, the industrial pollution had a strong impact on the design of the project, both in its programming, its balance and its temporality. Refusing to export its pollution to another site, the Oasis des Murs à Pêches team demonstrated its inventiveness and proposed an innovative solution for in-situ decontamination by bioreduction (degradation of pollutants by stimulating bacterial activity) and venting (a process for extracting volatile pollutants from the soil).
From the constraint of a strongly prevailing industrial pollution, BURGEAP, the engineering office of the consortium, has become a force of innovation and creates an important reference for future urban projects on polluted sites.
Dealing with flood risk
>> In Nogent-sur-Marne, the REV'N'RIVES project had to deal with several elements, including two main constraints: the location of the site in a changing urban zone (ZUM), which means that the regulations for this zone are likely to change; and the submission of the site to the flood risk prevention plan (PPRI). Led by SOGEPROM, the REV'N'RIVES project had to deal with an exceptional landscape and setting, which required the project to be designed with the essential components of scalability and resilience. The team took advantage of this and proposed in its project a landscape show extending the dreamlike, recreational and historical dimension of the banks of the Marne, while favouring an appropriation of the site by favouring open spaces; by following the spirit of the guinguette with light and modular occupations; and by integrating water as a dynamic element with which to organise the outdoor installations in order to "deal with" and not "fear" the risks of flooding and high water in winter. The project by architects CHAIX & MOREL, BRUTHER and landscape architect VOGT LANDSCHAFTSARCHITEKTEN AG redesigns the banks and improves the relationship with the Marne. The numerous perspectives and paths (high and low) thus highlight the relationship with the water and create places for relaxation and walks.
Integrating career risk
>> Located on the edge of Clichy-sous-Bois, the Leclaire land has many advantages, including a hillside location with views of Greater Paris in a green setting, but it is also located on a former gypsum quarry covering 2.25 hectares.
The Un Belvédère Métropolitain project was able to transform this constraint into potential with great agility by choosing, thanks to GEOLIA's geotechnical expertise, to concentrate the TVK agency's constructions on the upper part of the land (less impacted by the quarry risk), which benefits from the most interesting views, and to allow URBAN ECO to develop the rest of the site as a place of worship, to concentrate the TVK agency's buildings on the upper part of the land (less affected by the quarry risk), which has the most interesting views, and to allow URBAN ECO to develop the rest of the site as an urban agropastoral site (managed by ETUDES ET CHANTIERS and the ESPACES association), combining pasture, orchards and off-ground crops. Agropastoral follies" in the form of light, dismountable wooden pavilions complete the scheme.
Making sport and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games a lever for urban innovation
As a major partner in the organisation of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024, the Greater Paris Metropolis is convinced of the territorial dynamic that the organisation of an international event such as the Games, but also the creation of new or large-scale sports facilities, brings.
Sportsmen and women, federations, companies and citizens are mobilising to highlight their territory on D-Day and to showcase their know-how and their capacity for innovation. The Paris 2024 bid placed innovation at the heart of its strategy by mobilising the French innovation ecosystem.
For Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris, sports innovators were also present. Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris has been able to mobilise the innovative power of sport on certain sites to provide greater accommodation capacity, greater diversity and the development of new economic and ecological perspectives.
>> The Terre d'Eaux project in Sevran, created for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the very first artificial dynamic surfing wave in France in the heart of a network of large landscapes offering the site a major dimension. Designed by the architect JACQUES ROUGERIE with the FEDERATIONS FRANCAISES DU SURF ET DU SKI NAUTIQUE - WAKEBOARD, this new wave will be able to welcome amateurs as well as professionals of surfing, by offering an intensity and a duration of wave modulable suitable for all the practices of gliding. This artificial wave and the surrounding water park will be 100% autonomous in water. 100% of the energy needs resulting from the pumping of water will also be provided by renewable energy. Responding to the need to surpass a whole generation, the potential attractiveness of this new sliding facility is undeniably of metropolitan scale.
>> Designed by HARDEL ET LE BIHAN ARCHITECTES and the landscape designer BASE on the priority theme of youth and sport, the Porte Brancion revitalisation project in Vanves and Paris The project: Sport, Nature and Wood led by WOODEUM, creates a 2,544 m² sports facility, consisting of 3 futsal pitches, crossfit areas and a sports bar, managed by LE FIVE, of which it will become the flagship. Intended to attract new audiences and residents, this new sports facility will be low-carbon, thanks to a solid wood CLT construction, and will also offer a SPORTS RECYCLING facility operated by an eponymous company.
>> The Pleyel Lights, The project is the result of a collaboration between SOGELYM DIXENCE, SNOHETTA, ATELIERS 2/3/4, BAUMSCHLAGER EBERLE, CHAIX & MOREL, MOREAU KUSUNOKI, MAUD CAUBET and MARS ARCHITECTES on the St Denis site. It offers 13,100 m² dedicated to a hybrid offer combining culture, sport and shops with the aim of creating a new centrality weaving links with the various publics, encouraging the emergence of encounters and innovation, or even revealing young talent. This programming is made possible by the association SPORT DANS LA VILLE.
>> The Fabrique des Cultures proposes a series of events in La Courneuve, a 7,070 m² Urban Cultures Hall. Combining urban art and sport, the site will offer a wide range of activities such as basketball, climbing, boxing, crossfit and many others thanks to the FIVE and local players such as, for example, LE BASKET CLUB COURNEUVIEN, FLASH LA COURNEUVE (American football) or DEREK BOXING LA COURNEUVE
The Halle des Cultures Urbaines plays an essential role in opening up the Fabrique des Cultures to its territory. It is emblematic of the principle of mutualisation of spaces encouraged on the whole site. Thus, the long-term operator of the sports facilities, LE FIVE (associated with partners depending on the discipline), will open its facilities for dedicated slots to meet the needs of local associations for additional space.
>> The Parks on Stage project on the Pont de Rungis site also includes a large 25,000 m² facility: the Digital Stage, with an important e-sport component (a potential Olympic discipline in a few years?) bringing together players such as TURTLE ENTERTAINMENT, SMART VR or LA SOURCE and new sports activities such as a trampoline park by HAPIK and an indoor climbing facility proposed by CLIMB UP.
>> The Plug & Live campus project in Vitry-sur-Seine includes a sports centre operated by LE FIVE offering classic activities (fitness) and areas for new urban sports (indoor football, padel-tennis, climbing, etc.), operating over very long hours in order to promote social diversity.
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Fabienne Marion
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