CHAMPIGNY-SUR-MARNE (FR) PROJECT SCALE — XL/L – territory / urban + architecture
SITE PROPOSED BY — EPAMARNE public development
LOCATION — Champigny-sur-Marne, EPT Paris-Est Marne et
agency, Champigny-sur-Marne, EPT Paris-Est Marne et Bois
Bois administrative territory, Métropole du Grand Paris
administrative territory
POPULATION — 76,500 inhab.
OWNER OF THE SITE — EPAMARNE public development
STRATEGIC SITE — 150 ha
agency, private sector
PROJECT SITE — 15 ha
POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Conceptual studies,
urban planning and landscape project management, project management
City of Champigny-sur-Marne — 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION?
The mutation goals of the wasteland that constitutes the VDO are part of a metropolitan objective of rebalancing the economy of Eastern Paris, developing productive activity in the city and bringing together the employment sectors of the major centres of the regional transport. At the scale of Champigny, it is also a question of reinvesting a site that breaks the urban fabric between the East and the West of the city, and sustaining an ecological continuity registered as such in the Regional Scheme of Ecological Coherence. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?
The project site is developed along a wasteland carrying a certain environmental wealth; it is deployed between existing activity zones and an archipelago of urban projects of metropolitan scope, linked 38
together by the future transportation network —the Grand Paris Express— and the future urban boulevard that will host Altival. The site therefore offers potentials of several kinds, involving a multitude of actors. It invites us to think of a model of urban development that integrates nature, biodiversity, mobility, landscape, economic activity, jobs, uses… In addition, it raises the question of the most suitable governance model to support this development process. The theme of productivity must be considered from the angle of job creation, corresponding to the local and metropolitan basin, that is to say to the development of crafts and an urban fabric largely composed of very small and medium enterprises. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?
As the VDO project was initiated prior to Europan, the competition does not constitute the generating fact of the urban project. On the other hand, Europan made it possible to compare visions and to enrich the engaged reflection. It is now a question of reconciling these different approaches to feed the project carried by the city but also the ones carried by other actors of the territory.
