2 PART-DIEU NOTEBOOKS PART-DIEU: SUPER COPRODUCTION FILES: The running of the coproduction The operational systems NOM DU PARTENAIRE summary Introduction 4 The running of the project 18 The major themes of the project 26 Sustainable mobility, Nature in the city and quality of urban atmosphere Regeneration and development Business district, residential district Operational systems 46 Easy ground and active bases Epicentre and skyline The cultural crossing The Part-Dieu style The operating entities 62 Focus on the open railway station Focus on the Heart of Part-Dieu Tribute to Charles Delfante 70 With extracts from interviews with (in order of appearance): Bernard Badon ; Benoît Quignon ; François Decoster, Djamel Klouche and Caroline Poulin ; Michel Lussault ; Nathalie Berthollier ; Jean-Louis Meynet ; Jean-Philippe Hanff ; Véronique Granger ; Philippe Gasser ; Bernard Rivalta ; Benjamin Cimerman ; Gilles Buna ; Alain Marguerit ; Valérie Philippon-Béranger ; David Kimelfeld ; Hervé Chaîne ; François Corteel ; François Bregnac ; Albert Constantin ; Pascal Barboni ; Laurent Vallas ; Manuelle Gautrand ; Pascal Crambes et Pierre Nallet ; Georges Képénékian ; Frédéric Michaud and Jean- Marie Duthilleul ; Emmanuelle Balmain ; Charles Delfante. And quotations from: Olivier Laurent ; Jean-Louis Molin ; Jean-Yves Chapuis ; ENCORE Agency Part-Dieu super coproduction The “redesign” of this central district. At the Part- and of which the real estate assets Part-Dieu took shape, Dieu, local government is investing were verging on become obsolete massively in carrying out studies and less attractive, the project took in a guide plan then and projects as well as the acquisi- on a larger scale. During the discus- in a reference plan, tion of land, even if there isn’t much sions with the departments of the land left which is negotiable. By set- Greater Lyon, with experts and the opening the way ting the course, the project owner team of town planners and archi- to several rounds has revealed the development tects chosen for the design of the of negotiation with potential for this district and has project, the AUC agency set its sights set in motion, on behalf of a range on a more universal and powerful a wide variety of of developers, a stream of projects. target: that of making the Part-Dieu stakeholders. Many property owners have seized a modern metropolitan hub. the opportunity of this dynamic to begin the renovation of their own The Part-Dieu aims to be more Two years after the launch of the property which is on the verge of than just a town-planning project Lyon Part-Dieu project, this 135 becoming obsolete. by serving as an urban laboratory hectares site in the heart of Lyon, incorporating the multiple func- France’s largest business Dis- In this district which since the tions, uses and services of the city trict after la Défense, is booming. 1970s has been home to govern- of tomorrow. It is as much a to do Guided by the Part-Dieu Mis- mental authorities, large semi- with what is within the container as sion which controls the project public or private companies, one with the container itself. ownership for the target, the stra- of the largest shopping centres in tegy and the implementation of the the country and the largest inter- It is because the issue is one of project ; investors, developers and connection railway station in transforming a fully operational France, the local government has district of which almost all the plenty of ideas but not much land… easements are in use that the, AUC The public authorities don’t “It’s by winning the battle of ideas chose to “ Reinventing the Part- have much land... but they do that we will get the stakeholders Dieu”: neither to start again from have ideas. on board “explains the Managing nothing, nor to start work on the Director for the City of Lyon and district from scratch, but to give Greater Lyon, Benoît Quignon back a meaning to Part-Dieu based architects are actively working on who sums up the job of the project on what it is today and taking it the - development of this central owner as follows: “it’s about encou- down a new path for the future. district of the Lyon conurbation. raging all those who would like to invest to make this transformation However real issues remain concer- As of Spring 2012, around a success”, “about promoting dia- ning the change to the existing 300,000 m² NET – which is to say a logue and providing a tailor made infrastructure: at a site which is quarter of the project target – were product”. The Part-Dieu Mission is home to some beautiful examples of being developed with the work the preferred interface for this dia- architecture designed in the 1960s expected to last between three and logue and the preparation of pro- and 70s, what should be done about sixyears. A few are at the comple- jects by coproduction. this rather odd collection? In an tion stage, like the Incity tower,the urban environment of paving slabs Velum or Sky 56 (1). When it embarked upon the Part- separating pedestrians and cars, Dieu project, at the end of 2009, how would one restore a peaceful “Apart from the Béraudier northern with a series of workshops brin- cohabitation between all the dif- sector and the Porte Sud, over the ging together developers, techni- ferent means of transport and give rest of the Part-Dieu district, the cians and intellectuals, the Greater back pedestrians their space and developers are hard at work; there Lyon signaled the lofty values and comfort? More generally, how could aren’t many gaps in the project ambition that it had planned for the one include quality and humanity map” points out Bernard Badon, redesign project of this district at in an urban development which is director of the Part-Dieu Mission. the heart of the conurbation. aimed at high density? Behind this project: the wish of du From its initial objective, which was Confronted by real estate prin- Greater Lyonto give a strategic, to regenerate a business district ciples which tend to go it alone clear and ambitious structure to which was designed in the 1960-70s, and favour quantitative yield, 4 the Part-Dieu Mission intends to Because one of the original aspects the matrix of the project. The pro- bring stakeholders together so to the Part-Dieu project was to deal ject owner has committed mas- that together they can produce with what exists already, to activate sively in terms of the studies that quality buildings an promote an wide ranging projects from public have been carried out, project sup- original strategy of sustainable and private developers, owner or port, public projects (for example development. This strategy is users within the district, these rue Garibaldi) As well as financial based on sustainable mobility, suggestions were by and large sub- investments: the Greater Lyon has on urban landscapes which sup- ject to discussion and opened to now invested some 100 million pose other concepts of nature in negotiation. euros in acquiring the most strate- the city and a certain quality of gic real estate at Part-Dieu. urban atmopshere. What’s more, For Nathalie Berthollier, “public- it’s not just a case of densifiying by private coproduction is the new The various stakeholders esta- building higher, by continuing to order in urban production. And we blished at the Part-Dieu or who design the Lyon skyline, but also of are helping invent it at Part-Dieu. were interested for various reasons hitching this district to the ground It forces us to adopt a new profes- in its development were consulted more effectively and starting with sional position: that of developer, and brought on board then sup- the city. the town planner is becoming ported in their projects. more and more of a negotiator”. Most of them have become aware The “public-Private Plot by plot, discussions are unde- of the project envisaged by the coproduction is the new rway with developers, investors, or AUC and have clearly applied their users so as to adjust the objectives own language and concepts. Each order in Urban production. of the private operators and the one of them has something to say The town planner becomes ambitions of the Part-Dieu pro- about the project, as is evidenced a negotiator”. ject to fit in with the co production by the many interviews carried out and shared project dynamic. This for this second edition of the Part- In a district described by studies common position is conveyed in Dieu Notebooks. as functional and mineral, cold the reference Plan. and lacking in any sensation or warmth the AUC agency is deve- As a “A landing platform for shared The coproduction process is in loping structured concepts which suggestions”, this document makes full swing. are largely based on services and it possible both to set out the ope- uses, such as “easy ground”, “active rational conditions for the project At Lyon Part-Dieu, the coproduc- bases”, or for that matter “cultural sector by sector (programming, tion process is in full swing. Its’ not crossing”. features, realignment, real estate, the only way of fulfilling a project density, volumes, adequate opera- which is clearly supported by a What’s more the notion of “user tional systems...) and to feed the public administration in this case value” has entered the vocabulary conceptual basics of the project. the Greater Lyon, which is very of the investors, who are ever more engaged. But it’s an original and aware that the rental cost per m² The Part-Dieu project favours fertile aspect to this new model of can be justified by the quality of ser- collective intelligence city regeneration undertaken at vices – from transportation means the heart of the Lyon conurbation.