Implementation Processes

E11 Savenay (FR) – Atelier Georges + Atelier Lætitia Lafont Architecte

Different implementations processes were discussed during the E12-13 Inter-Sessions Forum in Pavia (IT).
Atelier Georges + Atelier Lætitia Lafont Architecte, Winner in Savenay (FR) for their project "Mesures ligériennes"

Team: Thibaut Barbier (FR), Lætitia Lafont (FR)

See here the team participation to the debate at the Inter-Sessions Forum in Pavia

Thibaut Barbier, Atelier Georges (FR): "Savenay is located in the West of France, at the transition between two major cities, Nantes and Saint-Nazaire. The Europan site is located […] at interface between two worlds that do not talk to each other on the border between a business zone and a floodplain. We proposed […] to work with specific tools that we called "mesures ligériennes" (or measures from the Loire), taken at each scale, from the districts to the estuary. […] After the competition and the restricted consultation with the 3 winning teams, we received a contract running to 2020 with 3 missions: the masterplan, the feasibility of the architectural programs or the design of public spaces. We have now been working on the first stage for 6 months, thinking about a way to develop the masterplan for this district […]
Our work now consists in making all the measures at the different scales and to gather them around the 3 themes that we consider crucial for the district: the relation to water, or how the district can be integrated into a flood zone; the relation to the town, or how to make the district not only a symbolic element but also a physical link for the neighbourhood and how to go beyond the railway tracks; and finally the diversity, or how to go from a business zone to a housing district keeping the activity alive.