Recompose: We will preserve and magnify the site’s powerful industrial identity, weaving it into a new urban fabric that hybridises productive and residential functions to create a living, autonomous neighbourhood. The project will foster a vibrant economic ecosystem by offering a diverse range of spaces, from 50m² for artisans to 1500m² for established mid-size companies and by encouraging collaboration between the private sector, educational institutions like UVSQ, and local associations. The industrial heritage will be honored by conserving symbolic elements like tanks and overhead networks and tracing the outlines of former buildings in the new public spaces.
Reconnect: A key objective is to break the site’s isolation. We will integrate new connections, carefully managing logistical flows while prioritising soft mobility for residents and visitors. Logistics will be concentrated on the northern half of the site, while general traffic will be excluded from it and a 200-space underground car park will serve inhabitants, workers, and visitors. To ensure seamless integration with the city, bus lines D and G will be extended to the site, and the active mobility network will be connected to existing routes, promoting pathways along the Gassicourt lake. Critically, we will reconnect the site to its natural surroundings by creating two landscaped, ecological corridors that link the adjacent lakes.
Remediate: Our approach is rooted in a circular and integrated process of transformation. This begins with a deep commitment to the environment by managing polluted soils on-site through bioremediation techniques. Excavated earth will be sorted, clean soil revitalised for new landscaping and contaminated soil treated and reused. This principle of reuse extends to the buildings themselves; materials from deconstructed structures will be salvaged and incorporated into new constructions, managed from a central workshop in the renovated «Usine des Communs.»