PROJECT PARTNER(S)
Client: Conseil Général des Hauts de Seine (local government)
Landscape Architect: Guillaume Geoffroy-Dechaume
Architects: Chemetov et Huidobro

LOCATION
Nanterre, west of Paris. See a google map here.

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS
Rain gardens, playgrounds, bike and pedestrian lines and trails, riparian corridors, wetland, non fossile energy (windmill), community gardens, public art, wind mill.

DESCRIPTION
Located in a brownfield 100% degraded, between a highway interchange, a train line, the Seine River, a papermaking industry and a penitentiary, the Parc du Chemin de l'Ile is part a big rehabilitation intervention on the urban space linking La Defense (Paris business district) and Nanterre.
See a map of these interventions.:

Materials found on the site were recycled and used to build it.
At the entrance of the park, a sequence of ponds filter the water pumped in the Seine and store it, where it is then pumped by a windmill to be used in the park and the community gardens.
The whole course of the water, from pumping untill storage is visible to the visitor.
Th park is full of scenic places to seat and enjoy the surrounding landscape sitted on a bench or in the grass.
Several very qualitative places for recreation (for kinds, teenagers but also dogs) are available.
Several contemporary sculptures were placed all over the park.
All the buildings are HQE certified (High Environmental Quality).



PHOTOS AND DRAWINGS





ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Watch a video about the project (in French) and see how it was prior to intervention.