TERRASSE DU VAL D’ARGENT – ARGENTEUIL

Rehabilitation of the Val d’Argent terraces and the bypass.

The concept of separating flows from living spaces is inherent to the slab-based urban planning of the 1960s. This approach to flow management as a city-building principle led to urban planning based on superimposed structures, with flows passing through level 0, then freeing up open space on a slab framed by tall architecture. The “solitude” and rejection of these “new” neighborhoods by the city raises the question of the role of these freed-up spaces, and the need to link these neighborhoods to the city in a simple way.
The developments carried out had three objectives:

• Reinscribe the slab by making the road around it more fluid and giving it a real identity.
• Link the slab to level 0 by inventing visual and physical “link-links” rather than “limit-links”.
• Create a legible, simple and unified public urban framework on the slab, covering the entire space and tracing the functional uses of the city.