Auby (FR

from Europan 15 Results Catalogue - Productive Cities /2

Rotterdam Groot IJsselmonde (NL

PROJECT SCALE — L/S – urban + architecture / architecture + context LOCATION — Auby, Douaisis greater intercommunal area, Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin POPULATION — 7,600 inhab.

STRATEGIC SITE — 26 ha / PROJECT SITE — 2.5 ha SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Auby OWNER OF THE SITE — City of Auby POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Urban studies, 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 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.

Extractions, from Source to Resources

AUBY (FR) — WINNER

AUTHOR(S) — Amandine Martin (FR), Céline Tutcu (FR), Faustine Pauchet (FR), Justine Labérenne (FR), Architects CONTACT — atelier-ine 52 rue de Douai, 59000 Lille (FR) +33 611745268 / ine.architecture@gmail.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The story of Auby combines together all the problems of the productive city: when industry developed in the region, it was mainly the rural population who found work in this burgeoning sector. Afterwards, as more workers arrived in Auby, construction began on the mining cities. Today, the situation in Auby is the opposite: while the factories have closed one after the other, the accommodation remains, although unfortunately, and there is not enough employment for the entire population. Is it time for Auby and its coal mining area to reverse the paternalistic history by exploring the potential of accommodation and become both attractive and productive? Including existing dynamics, the mode of operation makes it possible to build a bespoke city, tailored to the inhabitants and their skills.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — Uniting urban renewal and employment policies, the project offers a concrete illustration of development intimately linked to the idea of productive heritage. The project proposes a modus operandi based on experiments linked in space and time and integrating the rehabilitation of older housing.

Grey Matter

AUTHOR(S) — Matthieu Boustany (FR), Benoist Desfonds (FR), Elida Mosquera (ES), Architects; Jérôme Picard (FR), Architect, urbanist CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Peeraya Suphasidh (TH), Architect

AUBY (FR) — RUNNER-UP

CONTACT — 9 avenue de Taillebourg, 75011 Paris (FR) Ladegårdsgaten 37, 5033 Bergen (NO) +33 678453711 (FR) / +47 91629138 (NO) contact@local-eu.com / www.local-eu.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — What if a more ‘productive’ life in the city had more to do with the idea of being ‘meaningful’? What if the notion of productivity were not focused on the youth, but overcoming a fortuitous age segregation and focus on the senior? The Urban Loop in Auby brings this together in a framework harnessing the effort made and other needed around the idea of age-integration and health. With new streetscapes, intergenerational housing that is partly self-managed facilitates access to learning, voluntary work, crafts, continue or start businesses, support research in synergy with regional actors and the youth. A forward-looking public/private institute sharing functions and creating mutual value and synergy. The masterplan comes to support and grow the offer of living in a meaningful city.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The team attacks the common cliché that activity and productivity belong solely to youth and criticizes the segregation of seniors that consigns them to isolation, passivity and dependence. A remarkable proposal from this session, it reminds us that a productive city can also be inclusive.

Productive Synergy

AUTHOR(S) — Ariane Jean Marie Désirée (FR), Architect; Grégoire Simonin (FR), Architect-engineer TEAM POINT OF VIEW — “Productive Synergy” aims to address Auby’s urban regeneration problematic through sustainable mechanisms applied to the environment, the housing, production and mobility. Our approach is based on a process in which the people, solidarity and the land are the basic resources. Three production factors will act in conjunction to generate this synergy: a local currency to value the latent productions; a Ressourcerie to promote re-use in an urban community; and a network of community houses to connect people as a third place. These production factors create a global and local ecosystem. The urban contextualization of the productive process will positively affect Auby’s living environment and renew its attractiveness. JURY POINT OF VIEW — Although modest in form, the proposal is a great catalyst for the use of local material, immaterial and human resources. Recycling in the broadest sense of the term in a small town that is reinventing forms of proximity participates in regenerating social networks and a shared economy.