E15 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Social Infrastructures

Saint-Omer (FR) – Special Mention

Team Representative: Clément Ringot (FR) – architect; Associates: Maxime Beel (FR) - architect

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"The territory of Saint-Omer is defined by water. Water is both the main resource of the region as well as its main threat. Floods, violent climatic episodes and other consequences of global warming are threatening the ecosystem of the marshlands, as well as its biodiversity. Today, the municipalities spend a lot of energy to fix the damages, without handling the causes. The project aims at controlling the inflow of water upstream from the marshlands. It’s a retention infrastructure at the scale of the agglomeration. The retained water, after being filtered, enters a new vertuous circle where it can be used by the citizens for productive activities, as well as for leisure and biodiversity."