Concept
In the competition initiated by Nicolas Sarkozy, Arte-Charpentier formed part of the team led by Antoine Grumbach, as one of 10 competing teams. The Grumbach team’s response is the only one to consider a vision that goes beyond the limits of the Ile de France region to propose a territory that links Paris to the estuary in Le Havre, via the Seine valley.
Program
This scheme, first envisaged by Bonaparte in 1802, takes on a whole new dimension when considering the territorial stakes on a scale that is no longer limited to the nation, but that of European networks, adding an economic dimension that links the capital to the sea, the starting point for world-wide exchange.
Team
Client
– Client: French government
Project Team
– Team Representative: Antoine Grumbach & Associés
– Associated Architect et urban planner: Arte Charpentier Architectes
–Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Belleville (ENSAPB)
– Urbanistic aspects of architecture: IPRAUS Institut Parisien de Recherche
– Architecture Urban Planning Societies – Equipe Territoires de la mondialisation et villes portuaires : CNRS
– Transport consultant : SYSTRA
– BLUE
Consultants
– Joan BUSQUETS, Architect Barcelona – Professor University of Harvard, USA
– Bruno FORTIER, Architect Urban Planner – Professor ENSAPB
– Jean-Michel GUÉNOD, Archimed – Consultant on Territorial Development Strategy
– Francis NORDEMANN, Architecte Urban Planner – Professor ENSAPB
– Simon RONAI, Geographer, Sct ORGEGO Territorial Development consultant
– Dani KARAVAN, Sculptor Paris – Florence – Tel Aviv
– Henri GAUCHOTTE, Territorial Development Strategy consultant – Communication
– Frédéric METZINGER, Groupe SAPN
– Antoine LEFEBURE MONZAGUE, Internet specialist
Project specifics
– Competition: 2008
