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MONTREUIL UNENOUVELLE DEN(S)CITE

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: MONTREUIL 2017

THE URBAN PROBLEM

For a number of years, Montreuil in the greater Paris area has been subjected to ever-increasing property development pressures as well as to the consequent real-estate specula on. The densifi ca on of the city is in progress; its transforma on is already set up: within the next few years houses and low-rise buildings seem des ned to gradually be giving their place to 4, 5, or 6 storey buildings.

In response, the local government is employing its urban planning toolbox: the city’s Urban Development Plan (Plan Local d’ Urbanisme) is under review; a Sustainable Construc on Charter (Charte de Construc on Durable) encompasses from now on all new developments, prescribing mixed-use programmes and capping selling prices; certain high-specula on areas have been “frozen” and no planning permissions (permis de construire) issued. These tools should allow to gradually (re)make a city that the real-estate market would otherwise fi nish up with in a couple of years.

However, will the outcome be any diff erent? In the future, Montreuil will certainly be dense but will it be capable to maintain its complexity and cultural richness, or to even build up on them? The city’s densifi ca on is no doubt an opportunity, but what is the poten al of this opportunity? How can we orientate the densifi ca on of the city towards an urban evolu on that is complex, intense, and not merely in quan ta ve terms. Most of all, how can we imagine the future of Montreuil with its inhabitants?

In 2017, the Ecole d’Architecture, de la ville et des territoires de Marne-la-Vallée, with the partnership of the municipality of Montreuil and Europan, will organise an interna onal workshop to discuss, imagine and generate design and/or policy proposals on an “par cipatory densifi ca on” strategy for Montreuil.

The workshop will be set in 6 steps : 01 TUTORS TEAM 02 SEMINAR JOURNEY 03 WORKSHOP WEEK 04 JURY 05 FINAL REPORT 06 PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS

01 TUTORS TEAM

The workshop program will be set following the concept of “par cipatory densifi ca on” and the ques on of how the inhabitants can integrate the real-estate process but without moving away : a city built by his own ci zens.

The tutors team will be composed by all the teachers par cipa ng at the workshop and the project leader. This team will be in charge of defi ne the main themes, the methodology and the sites for the projects.

A er the workshop, the tutors will be asked to provide a synthesis of their unit work in order to include it in the fi nal report.

02 SEMINAR JOURNEY

The fi rst day of the workshop a group of experts will present the principal themes and issues about Montreuil, some of this topics will be for example : • the general urban situa on of Montreuil and the Grand Paris,• compara ve analysis,• presenta on of specifi c urban problems of Montreuil,• interven on of a real-estate promoter to explain his methods,• examples of par cipatory housing in Montreuil,• the workshop program.

03 WORKSHOP

The workshop will be composed around a 7-day interna onal workshop with the par cipa on of urban experts, inhabitants, students, researchers and professionals, as well as urban development stakeholders.

60 architecture students, coming from diff erent countries, will be organized by groups of 15-20. Each one of these groups will have a 2/3 tutors team and will work on a specifi c site of Montreuil. Among this tutors there will be Marne-la-Vallée teachers and the winners of the compe on Europan in 2015 for the Montreuil site.

04 JURY

The last day of the workshop, the diff erent units will present their projects and conclusions in an public open session, with the assistant of Montreuil inhabitants.

A jury, composed by three architects and urban planners will be invited to comment the projects and start a discussion with the public. The members of the jury will be designated by the main partners : the Municipality, the Ecole d’architecture de Marne-la-Vallée and Europan.

05 RAPPORT FINAL

Once the workshop fi nished, a fi nal report with the synthesis of the projects and proposals will be addressed to the municipality of Montreuil. The actual city’s Urban Development Plan being under review, the municipality is par cularly interested in the possibility to include in the next text some of the workshop ideas.

The fi nal report will be also upload to the workshop website where it will be open and accessible for the consulta on of the inhabitants of Montreuil.

06 DIFFUSION / PUBLICATION / EXHIBITION

The workshop and its diff erent events will be published thought the local journal.A er the workshop, some ar cles will be published in diff erent magazines, in par cular the Revue Urbanisme, who is also partner of the project.

An exhibi on of the fi nal presenta on panels will be put together on the esplanade of the Jean Jaurès square, in front of the Town City Hall in order to show the projects to the inhabitants.

Eventually, the workshop contents layout could be re-designed so as to create an i nerant exhibi on able to be set in diff erent spaces as the Couvent des Recollets, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, le 104, or abroad in France et Europe. In any case this exhibi on is not consider in the actual budget.

The project, proposals and ar cles provided by the tutors, jury and seminar par cipants will be reunited in a publica on realized by the Ecole d’Architecture de Marne-la-Vallée. This publica on will be also accessible for reading and download from the workshop website.

PLANIFICATIONRECHERCHESPONSORS

PREPARATION REALISATIONPOST

PRODUCTION

ATELIER06/02/2017

EXPO LOCALE13/02/2017

20/02/2017

27/02/2017

RAPPORT

PUBLICATION

EXPOSITION

ITINERANTE

AVRIL 2017

JUIN 2016

JUILLET 2016

AOUT 2016

SEPTEMBRE 2016

OCTOBRE 2016

NOVEMBRE 2016

DECEMBRE 2016

JANVIER 2017FE

VRIE

R20

17

MARS 2017

NOVEMBRE 2017

DECEMBRE 2017

MAI 2017

JUIN 2017

JUILLET 2017

AOUT 2017

SEPTEMBRE 2017

OCTOBRE 2017

CALENDRIER ET PHASAGE

WORKSHOP TEAM

Jorge Lopez Architect living and working in Montreuil. Founder of the architectural pra ce COMCECI and SOMA-STUDIO. He studied architecture at the Catholic University of San ago de Chile and holds an master from the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Belleville.

Eric AlonsoDirector (with Frédéric Bonnet) of the DSA of Architecture and Urban planning of the École d’Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires de Marne-La-Vallée. Member of the Observatoire de la condi on suburbaine. Professor of history of public spaces at the École Na onale des Travaux Publics. Since 2008 he work also at the École des Ponts ParisTech / École de Chaillot.

Atelier Georges, Agence OYAPOCK, Marion Rhein, Louise Maurice.Winners of the Session 13 of Europan on the site of Montreuil, Murs à Pêches.

Cyril Pressacco et Thibaut BarraultProfessors at the École d’Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires de Marne-La-Vallée and associates of the architectural pra ce BARRAULT & PRESSACCO. Thibault studied architecture at the École d’Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires de Marne-La-Vallée, Cyril holds a master from the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and alsoa degree from the IUT Génie Civil de Lyon.

Carlos AlvarezHe studied architecture in the Na onal University in Mexico City, in 2002 he moved to Barcelona to follow the Doctor Degree program “La Forma Moderna” at the ETSAB. In 2002 he moved to Paris where he is been collabora ng as project manager with several architectural fi rms as Wilmo e & Asc., Tom Sheehan & Partners, Atelier SoA, Architecture Studio and others. He is currently responsible of housing development at Moa & Rivière studio.

École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires

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