BA 128 RÉSONANCES ÉCONOMES

2015

Team point of view
Between public impetus and citizen initiatives
The adaptable city is thrifty. We do not believe that a “sustainable” project is compatible with the liberal logic of the “always more”. The right balance between spending, produced effort and the achieved effect must be conceptualised differently. Living in Frescaty means living in a strategic and privileged quality district near Metz. Made of certain rusticity the project synthesizes both the city and the countryside.
This transversal and prospective approach aims to synergize urban and landscape dynamics to identify metropolitan issues. To affirm the economical, social and environmental vocations of the BA 128 Frescaty site, considering its development and diversity of uses and programs implies finding a right measure: to be both ambitious and adapted to contexts and environments. Each pattern engages in an overall ecological but also productive logic, drawing the outlines of the living spaces of tomorrow. This attitude requires finding resonances and solidarity both locally and on a wider scale, in order to promote the expertise and resources offered by the territory.
The project recognizes what exists and make it the starting point of a collective story narrative mutation. The project is born of hybridization between pre-existing elements and future development. It becomes a vector of links and brings of new uses in a rich and varied environment.

Jury point of view
The project composes with the heritage (architectural and landscape), weaves with the context, the infrastructures, the activities and the existing buildings. It considers the collective and evolving framework, a network of perennial public spaces, and the threads (landscaping, buildings, roads…), adaptable according to land appropriations and investments.

2016-2024
The starting-point of the process was a workshop with the 3 rewarded teams. A 2-day presentation of the workshop results was given to the elected representatives of Metz Métropole to communicate on the post-Europan processes, initiatives and public orders.
After the workshop, the 3 teams participated to a public market in the form of a multi-stakeholder master agreement on the “implementation of the follow-up of the Europan competition, preliminary studies and project management for the conversion of the Frescaty plateau”. The Contracting Authority is composed of Metz Métropole and the Etablissement Public Foncier Lorrain.
Several subsequent markets were given to the teams, which work now independently:
1- Project management mission on the ZAC (i.e. joint development zone) on the site and mission of coordinator architect-urban planner (BA 128 Résonances Économes)
2- Studies for the creation and creation of a ZAC on the Southern part of the plateau and mission of coordinator architect-urban planner (Cycle-Sol-Air)
3- Design studies for the rearrangement of the entrances to the plateau (B.A.S.E.)
4- Prior programmatic and urban studies on the redevelopment of the plateau (Cycle-Sol-Air)
5- Studies for the design of works of public spaces and project management for the ZAC South of the plateau (Cycle-Sol-Air)
6- Project management mission for the rehabilitation of the villas of the Service des Essences des Armées - SEA (BA 128 Résonances Économes)
7- Project management mission for the rehabilitation of the gatekeeper’s lodge on the plateau (BA 128 Résonances Économes) - Building permit filed in 2021
8- Feasibility and program study for the rehabilitation of the former control tower of the plateau (BA 128 Résonances Économes) - End 2020, submissions of the phase 2 for the feasibility and programming of the Control Tower
9- Creation of a car park at the entrance to Orly, a park of approximately 1 ha and on the landscaping of the roads in the Base Vie sector of the Plateau de Frescaty (BA 128 Résonances Économes) - End of 2020, presentation of the preliminary project