Issy Fort: The Digital City, now

Issy Fort: The Digital City

This 12 ha site is intended to be transformed into a housing district including businesses and public facilities necessary to fulfil the needs of the future inhabitants.

A project looking towards the future without forgetting the past Respectful of the past, this new district symbolises the City's wish to combine Issy's past and modernity - the historical fortifications, the blockhouses and the firing range will be preserved and highlighted while a Fort History multimedia memory lane will be created.

High Environmental Quality district Here, the technology is meant to serve the environment,the fourteen steps of the approach will be dealt with in a conscious and exemplary manner. The overall areas as well as each particular building's plans are designed to take in account the influence of the sun and the wind in order to generate maximum well being for the future inhabitants.On the energy front,thoughts will be put towards the development of ecological and renewable energy using processes (photovoltaic energy for example).

A district Intranet The district Intranet is the digital heart of the district, it is through this that all information will transit. This wager on a Digital Fort consists in making this Intranet rich and user friendly so that the inhabitants browse it and interact with it several times a day.

At home The consequence of such new technologies' availability inside each household is the creation of "smart" homes. Open to the world through high speed internet,linked to the district through the Digital Fort Intranet and its private and public services, "smart" homes equipments communicate with each other inside the home itself through domestic portals. The "domestic bridge" will allow,for example to control the temperature levels and the heating schedules in different parts of the home.

The Multimedia resource Centre The Fort Blockhouses will host a people orientated resource centre. This centre will be conceived as a new technology embassy, thus offering a threefold activity: training, demonstration and animation.

The school will be a pilot school for the use of New Technologies as a support for teaching. These new tools should improve teaching by allowing access to rich multimedia contents, as well as by improving the way children are studying, providing a follow up to teacher-to-student and student-to-student interactions after class. ■