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PORT-JÉRÔME-SUR-SEINE (FR) — RUNNER-UP
AUTHOR(S) — Ugo Nataloni (FR), Ulysse Panel (FR), Architects;
CONTACT — u2 architectures
Malaury Forget (FR), Urban and architecture theorist;
64 ter, Quai Joseph Gillet, 69004 Lyon (FR)
Raphaël Prost (FR), Architect, urbanist
+33 633918385 contact@u2architectures.com / www.u2architectures.com
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — “If one year for a human being is seven
years for a dog, I propose to consider that ten years for a human being is one year for a city.” (L. Kruger, 2007) Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine is therefore a nine-year-old child. The city took the form we know today, with the arrival of the oil industry, in the 1930s. The necessary mutation in the industry and its consequences on the land require Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine to demonstrate resilience, a quality that will enable it to resist the crisis and adapt to the changes that will follow. Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine has the plasticity and potential to adapt. Our proposal is to offer it a playground, allowing it to become a laboratory of the resilient city. JURY POINT OF VIEW — The team proposes using landscaping
strategies at various scales and over the long term to transition from the industrial site to an Innovation Park. The project places centres of excellence on the city-petrochemical site interface, designing a new residential neighbourhood with ground-floor workspaces. The entirety of the site is planned as a “laboratory of resilience”, a site of architectural and urban planning experiments, giving voice to transitions taking place in various fields: agriculture, mobility, biochemistry, energy, etc.
