Combining city development with an open landscape, Europa City creates a dynamic center of activity for visitors and residents, appealing to the variety of functions of city life. Europa City is situated along the route from Charles de Gaule Airport to Paris and has a wide range of programs that is part of a larger initiative to attract international tourism into the northern parts of Paris.
How to combine a dense city with an open landscape ?
REFERENCES EUR - Europa City
Europa City will offer, on an unprecedented scale, a mix of retail, culture and leisure around a defining theme: Europe, its diversity, its urban experiences and its cultures. Rather than orienting Europa City towards the highway, we propose to integrate it as the natural center of a new business district. We propose an urban form that combines dense city with open landscape, exploring the urban and green potentials of the site at once. We propose a commercial city that becomes a gathering point for the surrounding neighborhoods– a new kind of commercial center that is blended into the urban texture, and includes rather than excludes the surrounding city.
The programs of Europa City are organized along an internal boulevard with a mix of retail, entertainment and cultural programs on both sides. The boulevard forms a continuous loop travelling through six diff erent areas themed as the various regions of Europe. The central boulevard becomes the Rambla, the Regent Street and the Champs-Élysées of Europa city. Along the boulevard, public bicycles and electric public transport bring visitors quickly around. The circular street creates at the same time surprising spatial experiences and a clear overview - It allows you to get lost, and still fi nd your way
« Nous proposons une forme urbaine qui allie ville dense et paysages ouverts, explorant à la fois les potentialités urbaines et naturelles du site. U n nouveau lieu de vie qui est maillé dans le tissu urbain, et contient la v ille au lieu de l’exclure. Les programmes d’Europa City sont organisés le long d’une promenade piétonne qui forme une boucle continue qui voyage au cœur de l’european way of life . La ville circulaire d’Europa City peut devenir un véritable écosystème urbain - un repère, une référence pour un développement durable du quartier environnant et du Grand Paris »
CREDITS.
Partner in charge.- Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen.
Project leader.- Joao Alburquerque, Gabrielle Nadeau.
Team.- Maren Allen, David Tao, Salvador Palanca, Marcos Bano, Lucian Racovitan, Ryohei Koike, Camille Crépin, elisa Wienecke, Léna Rigal, paolo Venturella, Tiina Liisa Juuti, Jeff Mikolajewski.
Project.- Europa City
Client.- Groupe Auchan
Collaborators.- Base Transsolar Tess Transitec
Size.- 80 Ha
Location.- Paris, FR
Bjarke Ingels speaks about the Bjarke Ingels Group's vision of EuropaCity.
