To reconnect with the river, rediscover its banks, find the amenities of the banks; the project that mobilizes us is an opportunity to think of a new way of living the banks of the Seine. For more than 40 years, the presence of the automobile has created a form of break between the city and the river, but we must know how to remember the earlier periods when these places were places of meetings, places of life that participated the diversity of Parisian public spaces. Yesterday, break in the relationship between Paris and the Seine, the banks will tomorrow be a great place for gathering, strolling, a place of articulation between the scale of the neighborhood and that of the metropolis. Imagine the banks of the Seine as a switch / capacitor, a magical walk between the Tuileries and the Eiffel Tower in renewed relationships with the river. To regain the approval of relations with the presence of water, it is also to find elements of nature that escape the artificiality of a generalized urbanization, to rediscover exceptional places by their situation on the shore, the permanent spectacle of the river , the boats that sail, the opening to the sky, the landscape of the right bank.
Our project leans against the high docks to open up towards the Seine and to propose diversified uses, courses of relaxation, of leisures, spaces of ressourcement, meeting and representation. Our project relies mainly on the desire to "do together", a cooperative spirit for a proliferation of activities open to the greatest number. Through the development of the banks, it is a question of thinking about the conditions of use and appropriation for everyone, for the inhabitants of Ile-de-France, families and young children, but also Parisians for a day.
2012
2013
Lead Architect
FRANKLIN AZZI
Team
Represnetative architects : Artevia
Co-contractors architects : Franklin Azzi Architecture
Architects collaborators : Carat Sport, Lille 3000, Paul Armand Grether
Wood engineer : Jean-Louis Vigier
Landscaper : Stéphane Place
Graphic designer : Change is Good
Clients
City of Paris
