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Schifting blueprint

At the heart of Mantes-la-Jolie lies a sleeping giant: the former Dunlopillo factory. This preserved industrial universe, currently a fallow brownfield, is a testament to a bygone era of productivity that shaped the city’s identity and imagination. Today, the site stands as an urban enclave, its skeleton of buildings and machinery a relic of industrial glory, accompanied by a remnant of a workers’ city to the south. It is a highly polluted, mineral island, disconnected from major urban routes and the beautiful landscape of the Seine valley and its lakes.

Schifting blueprint envisions not an erasure of this past, but a «productive remediation»—a sober, responsible, and local revitalization that builds upon this unique legacy. The goal is to transform this site into a new destination founded on its identity, heritage, and existing resources; a place where productive development and quality of life merge to form a creative, accessible, active, and landscaped neighbourhood for all residents of Mantes-la-Jolie.

Schifting blueprint

The Productive Remediation of the Dunlopillo Site