Freestone from the Ile-de-France region, recycled raised floors and animal shelters: a first district “aiming for zero carbon in operation” in Paris was inaugurated on Thursday in a hitherto inhospitable area in the northeast of the capital.
“This is the largest massive stone project built since Haussmann,” said the architect of the TVK agency Antoine Viger-Kohler presenting “Ilot Fertile”, a set of four buildings built between two railway lines, on an industrial wasteland at Porte d’Aubervilliers (19th century).
If the ground floors are built in “low carbon concrete”, the facades of the floors, i.e. 10,000 m2 out of 35,000 m2 of buildings, are mainly made of “massive stone from Ile-de-France”, the rest coming from Spain, he said.
Designed “to limit its carbon footprint as much as possible”, the project includes “6,000 m2 of false floors from re-use and reconditioned” to equip the offices, indicate in a press release the twenty project partners.
In addition to 440 housing of all types (social, intermediate, free, young workers, student residence), except for accession, and 7,000 m2 of offices, this new district includes a hotel, a youth hostel and a private sports center.
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Vegetated pedestrian street, terraces planted with vegetable gardens and fruit trees, photovoltaic panels and shelters for animals (birds, bats, insects), like a dry stone wall for lizards: “this piece of city will allow people to live well, ”assured PS mayor Anne Hidalgo.
This project, started in 2019 and completed in 2022, was part of the first wave of Reinventing Paris calls for projects, launched at the end of 2014 by the former urban planning assistant Jean-Louis Missika, also present for this inauguration.
According to the promoter Linkcity to whom it was entrusted, the project cost a total of more than 200 million, including more than 100 million for work.