URBAN STUDY FOR THE REASSESSMENT OF DOWNTOWN GIEN
MISSONS :
Diagnisis, Programing, définition
CLIENT :
City of Gien
LOCATION :
Gien (45)
SURFACE :
5 ha
PROJECT MANAGER :
Sativa paysage / Ecmo
YEAR :
2015
Gien is a small town of the Loire valley built on a hillside and overhung by the castle. Its architectural landscape is characterized by the reconstruction and the concept of “picturesque modernity” developed by André Laborie. At first, we established a diagnosis and a master plan on a widened perimeter. Then, we realized a study on an operational sector organized around the main places of the city. The object of the project is the requalification of the public places of the city center with a redefining of the sharing of the public space and a work of opening towards the Loire.
Sativa landscape and Ecmo lean on an important work of diagnosis to draw step by step the city project, from wide scale towards a definition on the scale of the city and his inhabitants. The stakes were to find a balance between patrimonial continuity, evolution of the uses, place given to the soft traffic, renewed relationship with the Loire and the budgetary realism.
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Sketch of Gien city center from the sky
![pspg5©sativa](http://www.sativa-paysage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/croquis_vue.jpg)
View from the staircase of the cathe
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The place of Marshal Leclerc, an area blocked by furniture and traffic
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Programme plan
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The place Jean Jaurès today
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The place Jean Jaurès tomorrow
![pspg3©sativa](http://www.sativa-paysage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/quais_aujourdhui.jpg)
The docks today
![pspg3©sativa](http://www.sativa-paysage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/quais_demain.jpg)
The docks tomorrow
![pspg3©sativa](http://www.sativa-paysage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/place-saint-louis_aujourdhui.jpg)
The place Saint-Louis today
![pspg3©sativa](http://www.sativa-paysage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/place-saint-louis_demain.jpg)
The place Saint-Louis tomorrow
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Bernard de Palissy street today
![pspg3©sativa](http://www.sativa-paysage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rue_B-Palissy_demain.jpg)
Bernard de Palissy street tomorrow