6 still less than in the IledeFrance region

While the controversy over the Presidency fell momentarily, projects advance to the defence and work continued on the ground and even below. That is bétonne the technical Gallery dug under the circular boulevard to feed the future Tower lighthouse and the basalt building under construction (Société Générale markets rooms), the operation of national interest procedure (ISO) to expand the scope of State intervention follows its course. Thanks this creation announced for January 2010, the public establishment of defence (Epad) and the Seine arch (Epasa) will do more than one. The next establishment, referred to as Epadesa by juxtaposition of acronyms, will see its area of jurisdiction scope beyond the addition of two areas of origin. The 160 hectares of defence (Courbevoie and Puteaux) and the 125 hectares of the ZAC Seine arch (on Nanterre) already came to aggregate other neighbourhoods of Nanterre adjacent or extending the historical axis: taken keys in a loop of the beam of the tracks of Saint-Lazare, the heart of the University the RER station and the area abandoned the banks at the outlet of the axis on the Seinewith its Park and its upcoming residential Islands. Thus increased to 320 hectares, the operational boundaries of the Epasa has the merit of coherence. It organizes the territory scrambled Nanterre on the perspective drawn by the ZAC Seine arch in the extension of the historic axis, behind the Grande Arche. Incidentally, it represents a triple the capacity of the ZAC, attached to 644.000 m2. Cut into about 20 sequences known as terraces, this development in the long course (TGT, Coordinator Planner) absorbs about 3 km the altitude of 50 m from the West side of the arch to the Seine. It will be soon completed in its upper part, between the future gardens of the Ark and the place of the crossroads in work at the intersection of avenue Joliot-Curie, artery of Nanterre in the Prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine.

The conquest of the West

The welding of the two areas is the global vision of development which the axis through the meander of the Seine in the Seine", in the words of Philippe Chaix, former Secretary General of the Prefecture named in October 2008 General Director of both institutions for their merger. ISO in preparation is even more demanding since the draft decree submitted to local communities is on a perimeter of 770 hectares encompassing two other areas of activities of Nanterre in edge of river Seine, the Guilleraies South and the high-pastures in the North, and for good measure the ZAC of the fields - Philippe on La Garenne-Colombes. "At the request of the municipality", said the public establishment. The city of Nanterre can be found in the front line with 556 1.220 hectares of its territory covered by the scope of ISO, against 320 hectares now controlled by the Epasa. "Why change the contours of intervention" asked the municipality led by Patrick Jarry (FCP) who does not see the interest to integrate activity far areas managed by the Semna, the local semi-public company. "Or the potential urban and financial territory, just as the sound management of the Epasa whose accounts are positive, interest these decision makers to bail out the Epad abyssal forecast deficit!" At La Garenne-Colombes, fields-Philippe to ISO by Mayor Philippe Juvin (UMP) is experienced as a boon to get rid of problematic brownfields, even if the municipal opposition shouts to the forfeiture of a quarter of the communal territory. The opinion of the concerned municipalities is expected for November 3 and it is likely to be negative for Courbevoie and Puteaux, common media (UMP) of the business district. The Department of ecology (ex-equipment) to the synthesis for the preparation of the decree by the Prime Minister, before transmission to the State Council for validation. Will the procedure thus initiated, the State pass in force

A territory to stitch up

The outcry generated by the Presidency of the Epad at least allowed to inform the current extension by some leakage in front. Operation switches to Nanterre for the future of the business district, now mature at the age of fifty, but confronted with ageing. The stimulus plan, announced in 2006 and voted in 2007, promises good recipes, with a programme of construction of 650.000 m2venant addition to the 3.2 million of the existing fleet, of which 450,000 m2de offices under one-third of demolition-reconstruction operations, but is enough The emergence of new announced, high towers up to 300 metres, is not facilitated by the crisis. If the tour Carpe Diem (Aviva - A.m. Stern, architect) has received the green light, the building permit of tour Generali (Valode & Pistre, architects) is the object of recourse on the part of the nearby towers. The Tower Lighthouse adjacent to the CNIT (Unibail-Rodamco - Thom Mayne, architect) renovated is announced for the beginning of 2010. Ditto for the twin towers Hermitage Plaza next to Neuilly (Stroïmontage-Norman Foster, architect), but the Signal Tower in failed Spanish investors (Jean Nouvel, architect) disappeared from the future "skyline" of the defence, probably for a long time. Pending these flamboyant icons, the present of the business district is smaller. The Praetorium inaugurated October 5 presents itself as a particular hotel tertiary ten levels planted in the towers on the place of reflection, to an area of 10.500 m2, a drop of water on the district (Capital & Continental - R. Turner Arte Charpentier, architects). The First Tower (ex - AXA) at the entrance of the site from Paris is the most spectacular site of the time, earning ten floors with its 218 m height, which will make France champion in its delivery in 2011. A work of termites for a surface of approximately 10 gain and 87,000 m2 to deliver (capital Beacon, Altarea Cogedim-KPF SRA, architects). This will be the last heavy restructuring of its kind. The other aging towers are promised to the demolition as Aurora, vacuum and désamiantée three years. Such vertical wildfires are not in the calculation of the vacancy rate on the only available surfaces and which stood at 3.6, still less than in the Ile-de-France region. The pressure of the market remains strong and laborious regeneration of the site is not enough. The new offer is undoubtedly elsewhere, the lands of Nanterre and through the operations of a different nature, more urban and conventional, as demonstrated the first stretch of the Terrasses directed largely by Silic (142.000 m2) and occupied by AXA. With 42,000 m2en site on the axis and edge of the Seine, the developer holds site 253.000 m2loués to 140 companies.

Mixed terraces

The desired mix is performed by operations of current housing at both ends of the first segment. In away from the Grande Arche, the terraces are called upon to furnish with a majority of the operations of habitat, which both already assigned, and shine on the vicinity. Adjacent to the University, Anatole-France neighbourhood becomes so bigger of a 123 retained this summer housing (Domaxis-Emmanuelle Colboc, architect) program. The edges of Seine River at the outlet of the axis are suitable for residential operations of scale, at the edge of the green space completed. Even before taking shape, the écoquartier Hoche was distinguished by the large environmental award 2009 for the cities of Ile-de-France on the promise of its commitments. With a capacity of 650 units, its first joint programs have been vested: 123 Philia housing and to the Agency Operatives of Nanterre (ECDM, architects), 80 units in France home (Eric Lapierre, architect) and Nexity, 52 housing including 9 houses in town to the sandbox (Colboc and Franzen, architects)... The boiler wood-gas Enerbiosa - Carril (Arch) and the care taken in public spaces contribute to this distinction a little premature. A two steps, the ZAC Rouget-de-Lisle ends with an operation of 80 dwellings, a crèche and businesses (Logis transport, y. Lesprit, Arch.), and soon a square. Much remains to be done for stitching this territory bled by large transport infrastructure and manhandled by an anarchic urbanism. For ten years, the State developer is proven alongside territorial communities.