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Xaveer de Geyter Architecten
Floris Alkemade Architects
Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
“Paris-Saclay”, 30 min south from Paris’ center, houses about 10% of French public research and corporate R&D in the last large agricultural plateau of the region. Being part of the ‘Grand Paris, it is on the brink of becoming one of the most promising scientific and technological clusters in Europe. The goal here is not to urbanize the plateau but to invent an appropriate response to an unprecedented situation : out of the existing isolated buildings, the project is to create dense and compact urban forms encouraging interactions. Today, the territory’s unity is fragile. Only its geography is obvious: hills alternate with tree-filled glens and open plateau. The proposal is to develop an “enhanced geography” by adding to the strong elements already in place, parks and public spaces including infrastructures. This landscape framwork will host the « park campus »: delimited and multifunctional neighborhoods. Thus, the Paris-Saclay Cluster is not another city, but an hierarchized archipelago of districts interelated with each other by a chain of public spaces and parks. Time management is an essential component of the transformation process. To avoid becoming an ongoing construction site, the project makes use of a gradually-evolving artificial landscape, an ecological engineering that anticipates the different limits and public spaces.
354photographers
http://www.iabr.nl
http://www.media-paris-saclay.fr
Floris Alkemade Architects
Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
“Paris-Saclay”, 30 min south from Paris’ center, houses about 10% of French public research and corporate R&D in the last large agricultural plateau of the region. Being part of the ‘Grand Paris, it is on the brink of becoming one of the most promising scientific and technological clusters in Europe. The goal here is not to urbanize the plateau but to invent an appropriate response to an unprecedented situation : out of the existing isolated buildings, the project is to create dense and compact urban forms encouraging interactions. Today, the territory’s unity is fragile. Only its geography is obvious: hills alternate with tree-filled glens and open plateau. The proposal is to develop an “enhanced geography” by adding to the strong elements already in place, parks and public spaces including infrastructures. This landscape framwork will host the « park campus »: delimited and multifunctional neighborhoods. Thus, the Paris-Saclay Cluster is not another city, but an hierarchized archipelago of districts interelated with each other by a chain of public spaces and parks. Time management is an essential component of the transformation process. To avoid becoming an ongoing construction site, the project makes use of a gradually-evolving artificial landscape, an ecological engineering that anticipates the different limits and public spaces.
354photographers
http://www.iabr.nl
http://www.media-paris-saclay.fr