Stamping Ground

TEAM DATA

Team Representative: Laurent Lustigman (FR) – architect-urbanist; Associates: Clément Maître (FR), Robinson Neuville (FR), Ana Vida (ES), Morgane Champetier De Ribes (FR) – architects-urbanists
Contributors: Chama Ouzgane (MA), Laure Mouly (FR) – students in architecture

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^{C. Maître, L. Lustigman, L. Mouly, M. Champetier De Ribes, C. Ouzgane, A. Vida & R. Neuville}

VIDEO (by the team)

INTERVIEW

1. How did you form the team for the competition?

The team is a mix of 4 architecture and urban planning offices : Boman (Laurent Lustigman, Claire Bourgès-Manoury associés et Clara Jan), Forme (Clément Maître, Robinson Neuville associés et Laure Mouly), Atelier Moc (Morgane Champetier de Ribes associée) and Vida (Ana Vida associée et Chama Ouzgane); we all share an office in the 18th district of Paris.

2. How do you define the main issue of your project, and how did you answer on this session main topic: the place of productive activities within the city?

How can one accommodate the site demand of economical and urban development, while preserving the wild qualities of this ecological corridor?
In response to the site demand of economical and urban development, we suggest building on this ambivalence by regenerating part of an ecological city, halfway between urban and wild space. The productive activities will take part of the city life as any urban infrastructure.

3. How did this issue and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?

Our objective is to preserve the natural landscape of the ex VDO within the territory, to highlight the resources and the processes that are already in place, and to densify its fringes. These three strategies are implemented simultaneously in order to shape a territory-wide urban metabolism.

4. Have you treated this issue previously? What were the reference projects that inspired yours?

Boman designed a project to renew the ZAE des Terres Saint Lazare in Ris-Orangis (FR) for Europan 14. Forme is leading a research about urban productive infrastructures.

5. Urban-architectural projects like the ones in Europan can only be implemented together with the actors through a negotiated process and in time. How did you consider this issue in your project?

Our approach is based on a positive reading of the existing structures and resources. The objective is to use what has taken more than sixty years to set in place by considering that this time is a form of preview, in opposition to the mass planification of the 20th century. Thus, we strive to stimulate the territory by intensifying and connecting the existing and forthcoming entities to enable a balanced growth.
We identified four initiatives forming the base of the network between the actors of the site : the marketplace; the waste to energy plant; light wooden structures from the VDO; and the municipal technical centre.

6. Is it the first time you have been awarded a prize at Europan? How could this help you in your professional career?

It is the first time we have received a Europan prize. It represents a great opportunity for us, as we are trying to develop our young practices. Our collaboration helped us set up a work methodology while confronting our ideas and site analysis.
As young architects, we have few opportunities to work with the public sector and to develop large scale projects. Europan is an opportunity to work with public and private actors in Champigny-s/-Marne and eventually to build our ideas. It is also a way to encounter key players of the cities renewal.

TEAM IDENTITY

Office: Igor
Functions: Architect-urbanists
Average age of the associates: 33 years old

Has your team, together or separately, already conceived or implemented some projects and/or won any competition? If yes, which ones?

Forme and Boman designed and built the temporary food market restaurant in Part Dieu shopping Mall in Lyon (FR).
Designed and built with a zero waste objective, the entirety of the installation is removable and recyclable. The building site scaffolding, rented for a year to fit the duration of Le Food Market’s project, is the unique frame for the interior arrangement. The clamping collars are screwed directly into the structure which allows the furniture to be attached directly to it: display stands, bars, counters, tables, shelves, raised floors, etc. The partitions, made from vertical blinds, spread out on the metallic grid in order to segment the space and creates intimacy.