Located on the Seine river front, close to a key metropolitan
route (the Francilienne), évry
water depuration plant is a major infrastructural element, whose stakes are
environmental, technical, urban and symbolic. The first plant was built in the 70s and the aim of this renovation is
to increase and optimize its capacity. The urban dimension of the equipment has
guided us towards a strategy of opening-up and hospitality. Previously rejected
and hidden, this infrastructure is now relocated on the urban scene, so to have a public role,
and to reach a symbolic level. Regularly open to visitors, this equipment will
become a landmark and a thematic park on the theme of water filtering. The
formal strategy consists of a main axis along the river, along which gardens,
new buildings and tanks are located. Buildings will be renovated and their
façades completely redesigned as urban scale filters.
AWP office for territorial reconfiguration
AWP is an award winning interdisciplinary office for
territorial reconfiguration and design. It is based in Paris and develops
projects internationnally working on a wide variety of programmes:
architecture, landscape design, strategic planning, urbanism. These projects
only differ in terms of context and scale but they all share the same values
and visions: hospitality, beauty, an innovative confrontation between symbol
and uses and a renewed relationship between architecture and landscape. Their
portfolio of clients includes several european cities, metropolitan and
regeneration authorities, cultural institutions and developers. Among their
works: the French pavilion for the Architecture Biennale in São Paulo (Brazil,
2007), the Lantern pavilion in Sandnes (Norway, 2008), the sculpture park for
the LAM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (France, 2010), the
enlargement of a water purification plant (évry,
France 2003-2012) and a 230ha strategic planning project for the Praille
Acacias Vernets sector (Geneva, Switzerland, 2009-ongoing, with HHF). The three partners have exhibited their work
and lectured in many architectural venues in Paris, London, Milan, Rome,
Barcelona, Beijing, Toronto, Belgrade, Tianjin, Winnipeg, Geneva, Copenhagen,
Oslo, Trondheim, Tirana, Lausanne, New York and many other places.