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R-URBAN Place Place: Colombes, Paris (France) Date Date: 2011 Time Time: Work in progress
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December 20, 2012 · by stefania · in EDUCATION, FILL-A-VOID, URBAN AGRICULTURE
Space Space: Urban void Cost Cost: Unknown
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Public actors: City of Colombes, Ile de France Region ©2013 Google Imagery ©2013 TerraMetrics,
Private actors actors: Atelier d’Architecture
R-Urban is a locally ecological closed cycle strategy of production-consumption,
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involving the neighborhood in a network of alternative ways of living in a logic of urban
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resilience between the city and the rural. The project starts with three Pilot Units:
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Agrocitè, Recyclab and Ecohab. Their architecture denote the issue they are concerning:
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recycled materials, auto-construction’s techniques, processes of local food production,
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low impact living.
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Agrocitè consists of areas for different activities: community and educational garden, an
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experiments’ lab, a seed library, a vegetable market and other green facilities. Recyclab
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wokshops about DIY, construction and educational practices. Ecohab is a complex of seven houses mixing social housing and students’, artists’ and researchers’ residences built in self-sufficiency managing ecological know-how to reduce home-consumptions. The project is currently work in progress.
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References: http://r-urban.net http://www.urbantactics.org
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