Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
2020
Urban Forest
Issy Cœur-de-Ville
The project consisted of constructing a district around a new urban park. This design had multiple aims: to satisfy residents’ desire for contact with nature, to combat heat islands, and to become a part of the very history of the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux and its green framework.
Client
Team
Program
Planning
Area
Awards
Client
ALTAREA COGEDIM
Team
SETEC-EGIS
Fluids engineering
SETEC BATIMENT
Structural engineering
CEEF
Facades
SPOOMS
Kitchen engineering
VERITAS
Control
CEE
Economist
AVEL
Acoustic engineering
RAPHIA
Landscape
Builders and Partners
Studies coordination
Program
New mixed-use complex around a 13 000 sqm urban parc: residential area, offices, retail, digital art center, cinema, day nursery and school.
Planning
Planning permission
2017
Delivery
2020
Area
105 000 m² on a 5ha site
Awards
HQE
BREEAM
Very good
The apartment buildings surrounding the park were sectioned into successive tiers so as to leave this planted space wide open to the sky and ensure it receives plenty of sunlight and ventilation.
This plan enabled the apartments to be provided with external extensions in the form of planted terraces. The park was treated as a micro-forest with terracing planted with ground-cover plants, shrubs, and trees with tall trunks, all chosen for their climatic adaptation and contribution to biodiversity, in collaboration with landscape architect Marc Littot.
This project is also characterised by its very wide-ranging functional, generational and social mix within the same buildings, combining social and privately-owned housing, shops, cinemas, a school, a day nursery, accommodation for the elderly, offices and a third place linked to digitisation.
Another aspect of the project was its density – 105,000 m² built on 3 hectares. This density favoured the presence of facilities, and with precise and skilful handling of the buildings’ morphology, opposing buildings and openings providing views, the associated constraints were overcome.
This plan enabled the apartments to be provided with external extensions in the form of planted terraces. The park was treated as a micro-forest with terracing planted with ground-cover plants, shrubs, and trees with tall trunks, all chosen for their climatic adaptation and contribution to biodiversity, in collaboration with landscape architect Marc Littot.
This project is also characterised by its very wide-ranging functional, generational and social mix within the same buildings, combining social and privately-owned housing, shops, cinemas, a school, a day nursery, accommodation for the elderly, offices and a third place linked to digitisation.
Another aspect of the project was its density – 105,000 m² built on 3 hectares. This density favoured the presence of facilities, and with precise and skilful handling of the buildings’ morphology, opposing buildings and openings providing views, the associated constraints were overcome.
Bioclimatic tower
Saint-Gobain tower
Saint-Gobain tower