AUBY (FR) PROJECT SCALE — L/S – urban + architecture /
STRATEGIC SITE — 26 ha / PROJECT SITE — 2.5 ha
architecture + context
SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Auby
LOCATION — Auby, Douaisis greater intercommunal area,
OWNER OF THE SITE — City of Auby
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Urban studies,
POPULATION — 7,600 inhab.
urban and/or architectural mastery projects
FREDDY KACZMAREK — Mayor of Auby 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION?
The initial objective is to include the canal into the city, so that it is no longer seen as an obstacle between the North of the municipality and the city centre. For that, there was an imperative: find a destination and a use for the tens of hectares around. Land ownership is communal; this is an asset. These lands used to host industrial activity; then, they became fallow lands; and today, as they are close to the train station, they have potentially become a development issue in connection with the metropolitan peri-urbanization in Lille in search of solutions. For the municipality, the equation of the virtuous circle was then written as follows: densification — contribution of solvent population — commercial dynamics — land resources. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?
Conditions have changed. 150 years ago, the industry occupied 154
a virgin space, of low population density. Today the population is there, with its characteristics linked to poverty that 40 years of city policy and economic development have not been able to erase. Consequently, the challenge is to build a new future with this same population, the morphology and the assets. Leave people and places. To us, one of the keys to success is to rely on their needs, their practices and help them develop a circular economy that goes beyond the job/unemployment and work/wage division. The municipality must be able to generate its own sources of development. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?
The objective is to bring the partners together in a steering committee, the city having staff dedicated to the project. The population will continue to be associated through participatory workshops.
