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Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (FR) - Winner
Team Representative: Clément Bertin (FR) – architect; Associates: Sara Impera (IT), Martin Kermel (FR)– architects
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M. Kermel, S. Impera & C. Bertin
"The project aims to intensify the link industry-city-nature, thus recreating a humid productive environment encompassing Port Jérôme and the Seine. The vegetal material, beyond the cliché of sustainable green, is here employed for its productive capacity, and as an architectural matter used to define spaces. Along the avenue of President Kennedy, which becomes a multi-functional axis characterized by different types of mobility, a large lagoon area, nourished by a grid of water channels, will re-introduce biodiversity, designing new geographical and natural habitats. The local production of raw products will support a progressive ecological transition while diversifying the local crafts, allowing in turn the resurfacing of old knowledges and techniques, as well as the settlement of innovative and stable working populations. "
