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Romainville (FR
PROJECT SCALE — L – urban + architecture LOCATION — City of Romainville, Ormes and Chemin Vert neighbourhoods POPULATION — 26,000 inhab. STRATEGIC SITE — 15 ha
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PROJECT SITE — 2.7 ha SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Romainville OWNER OF THE SITE — City of Romainville, Department 93 POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Urban development guide, orientation scheme, architectural intervention
City of Romainville —
1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION? The site today is made up of abandoned urban residents awaiting the arrival of the tram; it constitutes a major level for the development of a new “piece of the city” combining new forms of urban activity associated with housing programming, and a greening of public space favouring the emergence of new uses. This site must be able to bring out synergies that will ensure connections to the different centralities of the metropolitan East.
2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?
The stake of multifunctionality on the site must allow an economic revitalization of the sector while providing answers to the particularities. It is a question of inventing new modalities of articulation between economic activities and life spaces. The longawaited arrival of the tram in this suburban district is an opportunity to imagine the urban form of the district, a new public space that is the vector of connections and of exchanges.
3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?
The city has a voluntary policy in favour of co-construction with the inhabitants. We conducted a preliminary consultation phase in 2018 in order to set the conditions for the acceptability of an urban project. The validation of the density and functional programming objectives, the presence of amenity green spaces and the greening of public spaces are invariants of the project. A second concertation phase is planned for early 2020 to allow the teams selected by the jury to exhibit their work to the residents and define common working methods.
