The site of St. Jean in Clermont Ferrand is looking for a new identity. This project aims to achieve this by transforming the site from a sink zone to destination area and a new desirable urban nucleus.
It will become a connection space for sustainable urbanization, a laboratory of sustainable urban, social and architectural development. A new piece of urban fabric with its perfect mix of uses.
The ´Eco Rings in the Park´ design creates a platform for this ambitious, future transformation of the strategic site and builds up new social and economical integration in the area and into the city. It will create an urban solution to enable the site to become a new centre complementing and connecting the existing centres of Clemont Ferrand.
The main idea of this new ecocity is the urban landscape park with an innovative sustainable housing form – the Eco Rings - in a green communal landscape arranged around a central public market square, green and water space.
The new designed ring houses become the heart of the housing concept. They are organized in linear strip plots in North-South direction with intermediate spaces, crossings and passages by diagonal and vertical walks with perfect links and connections to the surrounding areas. Other areas are the stripes for office and commerce, school facilities, traffic infrastructure and solar energy PV park. They strengthen the site concept of the urban landscape and give the whole quarter a new face for a future city ´hot spot´ of high quality.