The “Grand Paris” Project aims at consolidating Ile-de-France as a global metropolitan capital region. In the complex network of international exchanges and circulation it becomes thus fundamental to better understand the new role Parisians’Air-related “Gates to the World” will play at a Urban-Metropolitan scale, now that the new state plan for Paris fast mobility has been approved. In this second Grand Paris thematic Report we’ll investigate the Airport’s Territory in relation to the infrastructural, environmental and social transformations that the integrative Urban growth of Air Hub’s is currently stimulating. The theme of Airport-related urban growth is extremely complex as it answers to the State’s ambition and development plans, locally anchoring to marginalized, infrastructural, noisy (though inhabited) territories. Conflicts tend to emerge between the vocational profiles of urban areas, bound to a totalizing technical and economical efficacy and the life quality of local communities; the airport’s urban area emerges as a locus of political battle. The latent paradox of hyper-mobility associated to the slow space of rural or peri-urban areas, reveals the Parì (bet) implied in certain post-kyoto urban paradigms such as those proposed by Secchi and LIN for Greater Paris, aiming at developing a spatial isotropic condition rather than the current system ok “potential gaps”. Though supporting the primacy of continuity, we must notice that this vision finds its “revealing accident” (Virilio, Mau) in the necessity, for the contemporary metropolis, to equip with secured, socially hygienic and heterotypic Plug-ins. The interest in observing the birth, in Europe, of the Airport city and to do this by giving a better look at Paris, is due to the possibility we’re presently given, to imagine a model of governance and organization that might have (beyond functional efficacy) an original urban quality if compared to the renowned and historicized tissues of the 19th century mobility, a new spatial quality that might suggest a new way of thinking the role of mobility, hopefully more socially and environmentally sustainable. Paris presents a rich, multi-polarized, airport condition: while Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, in the north, consolidates its position as a transcontinental hub, teaming up with the nearby Le Bourget Business Airport, to specialize the local territory; in the south, Orly, a rather continental and National hub, is growing sensible to the nearby transformations of the EPAOrsa’s territories, being likely to play a major role to enrich the local panorama of urban services in the next years. In the mean while Beauvaistille, emerges as the new peripheral and low cost leading hub (Ryan strikes again). In the North, between Seine-Saint-Denis and Val d’Oise, with the Roissy-Le Bourget asset, we’re assisting at the generative moment of an Airport City. Beyond the boosting and specialization of the two poles, transversal territories will be the linear core of this development: towards the heart of Paris, with the Triangle de Gonesse, and transversally, with the transformations programmed along the Arc of the Tangential Nord-Est towards La Défense. An interesting occasion is given to solve public connectivity problems that have socially and spatially cut this area out of the metropolitan “difficult whole”. Merging natural and agricultural Land valorization with intense, highly specialized functions in this sector is the direction currently sustained by the EPA Plaine-de-France. The north sectors analysis is enriched by an exclusive interview to Mathis Güller, of the studio Güller and Güller, author of the book “From Airport to Airport City” and of the winning Project for the Triangle de Gonesse. In the south, Orly, has a quite different Urban position, we shall not refer here to an Airport City but rather to a compact system of functional transformations of previously isolated logistic areas that will tend to integrate a general character shift in the south east of Paris, playing a major role in the archipelago of strategic urban mutations in the territory of EPA-Orsa. We’ve deepened our knowledge thanks to Christian Devillers’s lucid and aware regard on the area; in an exclusive interview, the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme, has exposed us his preliminary design study for this sector.
GRAND PARIS REPORT II - The Airport Landscape of a European Global City. In-between Heterotopias and Complex Integrations
A. delli Ponti
Primo
;R. Farinella
2011
Abstract
The “Grand Paris” Project aims at consolidating Ile-de-France as a global metropolitan capital region. In the complex network of international exchanges and circulation it becomes thus fundamental to better understand the new role Parisians’Air-related “Gates to the World” will play at a Urban-Metropolitan scale, now that the new state plan for Paris fast mobility has been approved. In this second Grand Paris thematic Report we’ll investigate the Airport’s Territory in relation to the infrastructural, environmental and social transformations that the integrative Urban growth of Air Hub’s is currently stimulating. The theme of Airport-related urban growth is extremely complex as it answers to the State’s ambition and development plans, locally anchoring to marginalized, infrastructural, noisy (though inhabited) territories. Conflicts tend to emerge between the vocational profiles of urban areas, bound to a totalizing technical and economical efficacy and the life quality of local communities; the airport’s urban area emerges as a locus of political battle. The latent paradox of hyper-mobility associated to the slow space of rural or peri-urban areas, reveals the Parì (bet) implied in certain post-kyoto urban paradigms such as those proposed by Secchi and LIN for Greater Paris, aiming at developing a spatial isotropic condition rather than the current system ok “potential gaps”. Though supporting the primacy of continuity, we must notice that this vision finds its “revealing accident” (Virilio, Mau) in the necessity, for the contemporary metropolis, to equip with secured, socially hygienic and heterotypic Plug-ins. The interest in observing the birth, in Europe, of the Airport city and to do this by giving a better look at Paris, is due to the possibility we’re presently given, to imagine a model of governance and organization that might have (beyond functional efficacy) an original urban quality if compared to the renowned and historicized tissues of the 19th century mobility, a new spatial quality that might suggest a new way of thinking the role of mobility, hopefully more socially and environmentally sustainable. Paris presents a rich, multi-polarized, airport condition: while Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, in the north, consolidates its position as a transcontinental hub, teaming up with the nearby Le Bourget Business Airport, to specialize the local territory; in the south, Orly, a rather continental and National hub, is growing sensible to the nearby transformations of the EPAOrsa’s territories, being likely to play a major role to enrich the local panorama of urban services in the next years. In the mean while Beauvaistille, emerges as the new peripheral and low cost leading hub (Ryan strikes again). In the North, between Seine-Saint-Denis and Val d’Oise, with the Roissy-Le Bourget asset, we’re assisting at the generative moment of an Airport City. Beyond the boosting and specialization of the two poles, transversal territories will be the linear core of this development: towards the heart of Paris, with the Triangle de Gonesse, and transversally, with the transformations programmed along the Arc of the Tangential Nord-Est towards La Défense. An interesting occasion is given to solve public connectivity problems that have socially and spatially cut this area out of the metropolitan “difficult whole”. Merging natural and agricultural Land valorization with intense, highly specialized functions in this sector is the direction currently sustained by the EPA Plaine-de-France. The north sectors analysis is enriched by an exclusive interview to Mathis Güller, of the studio Güller and Güller, author of the book “From Airport to Airport City” and of the winning Project for the Triangle de Gonesse. In the south, Orly, has a quite different Urban position, we shall not refer here to an Airport City but rather to a compact system of functional transformations of previously isolated logistic areas that will tend to integrate a general character shift in the south east of Paris, playing a major role in the archipelago of strategic urban mutations in the territory of EPA-Orsa. We’ve deepened our knowledge thanks to Christian Devillers’s lucid and aware regard on the area; in an exclusive interview, the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme, has exposed us his preliminary design study for this sector.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
