ANGERS (FR) SCALES — L/S – Urban / Architectural
Angers, AURA (Urban Planning agency for the Angevine
LOCATION — North Saint-Serge – Gaston Ramon
region), ALTER (SPL Anjou Loire Territoire a public
Boulevard
development corporation)
POPULATION — City 151,000 inhab.
OWNER OF THE SITE — private and public owners
STRATEGIC SITE — 180 ha / PROJECT SITE — 80 ha
POST-COMPETITION PHASE — workshops, urban and/or
SITE PROPOSED BY — Angers Loire Métropole, City of
architectural study and/or project to initiate with partners
Daniel Dimicoli — Vice president in charge of housing and urban planning policies, Angers Loire Metropolis Roch Brancour — Deputy mayor in charge of urban planning and the organisation of the public domain, Local Councillor 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION? The aim is to strengthen the local economy by asking the entrepreneurs to be the stakeholders of change in order to make this territory lively and sustainable. The site benefits from a wide diversity of places and activities appealing to various answers reconnecting it to the urban and natural fringes as well as spreading out new uses accessible to the broadest public. It is about generating evolutions in support of an innovative approach of co-construction with economic actors, inhabitants and service users. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU 50
CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE? The industrial and commercial area of Saint Serge is exceptionally well located since it is part of the extension of Anger city centre and nearby the Maine River. Today it appears as a fragmented territory that has evolved, on an ad hoc basis, without coherence and understanding of the site as a whole, and is made of urban and architectural forms of the 1970s. The example of the National Interest Market (Marché d’Intérêt National), designed for being opened to the city and for integrating the management of the last kilometre, shows the important possibilities of evolution of the site. The reflections, led by the Grether team, are going to stimulate the experimentation potentials to reach new forms of urban and social diversity. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN? The process is currently being defined. It will integrate conclusions resulting from the exchanges with the teams.