Abstract
At the confluence of the Marne and the Seine, at the gates of Paris and the up-river territory of the Seine, Ivry Confluences is a site where much is at stake as it is the focus of a large-scale project as farreaching as the metropolis itself. It involves as much as a fifth of the community territory that is currently hemmed in between the Seine and the railway lines of the Austerlitz train station. It is an area that needs to be developed, made denser and linked to the rest of the city of Paris. Up until the 19th century, Ivry-sur-Seine was a small agricultural community but soon took on the scale of an industrial city by multiplying its population thirteen times in 50 years (1806 - 1856). Immediate access to the Seine, coupled with the arrival of the railway suddenly made Ivry-sur-Seine a strategic sector for development where numerous industries sprang up.
Highlights
The city of Ivry, to the east of Paris, started a development process in 2001 for an urban project encompassing the entire Gambetta sector around its structural axis, the rue de Brandebourg, and its main square, the Place Gambetta
The progressive liberation of new parcels necessitated the expansion of the perimeter of the Development of the Port of Ivry Schema, which today covers 145 hectares: the Ivry Confluences Development Operation
This includes the urban orientations of the Development of the Port of Ivry Schema and more generally, the territorial thinking that is being advanced on a regional scale in the context of the “Up-River Seine Development” association
Summary
Services and neighbourhood shops rub shoulders with offices, buildings housing social activities and amenities that are integrated into redesigned public spaces. 50% of the project is devoted to supporting and developing economic activity 570,000 m2 of offices, shops and social facilities 40% of the programming involves the habitat 430,000 m2 are devoted to residential functions for housing (roughly 4,500 units), but are specific (students, the elderly, researchers, holiday, etc.) 10% of the project constitutes large university and cultural facilities, and neighbourhood amenities with notably 60,000 m2 dedicated to the construction of scholastic structures, neighbourhood centres, day-care centres, a market, sports and social amenities, etc
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