Architecturestudio will be responsible for bringing out a new living district within the Nice Écovallée National Interest Operation, continuing the structuring and urban redevelopment of the territory over some sixty hectares between the ZAC Nice Méridia and the Allianz Riviera stadium.
For Sarah Bellier, Interim Director General of EPA Nice Écovallée“The project proposed by Architecturestudio met our aspirations in terms of practicality, operational, with an urban scale accuracy. The aim is to bring out within 12 years, a new landscaped living district in the extension of Nice Méridia. Parc Méridia will participate in the change of scale of the urban technopole. The public consultation will begin in 2021. Among the 23 groups that responded to our consultation, three were admitted to compete: the group with Architecturestudio, the Agence Ter group (agent) with CAB, TECTA, INDDIGO, Guam Conseil and Builders & Partners and the TVK consortium (agent) with BASE, SOA, Suez Consulting SAFEGE, EODD, Roland Ribi et Associés and the Société du canal de Provence et d'aménagement de la région provençale. We are very proud, the area is attractive to city professionals. "
For Philippe Pradal, President of the EPA Nice Écovallée“Parc Méridia is concretely launching phase 2 of the OIN Nice Écovallée. Today, west of Nice, the polycentric city is emerging. Nice Méridia, Grand Arénas and Parc Méridia are and will be new centers of life and attractiveness that meet the housing needs of residents and users of the territory and beyond businesses. A new economic and urban dynamic is engaged. "
Parc Méridia, a large-scale project to give a new scale to the urban technopole, Nice Méridia
Parc Méridia is part of the PPA (Partnership Development Project) contract signed in 2019 for the period 2019-2032 by the partners. It provides for the development of approximately 589.000 m2 of floor space. This involves creating a new mixed-living, lively and intergenerational neighborhood aimed at accommodating housing, businesses and jobs, as well as local shops and services and public facilities necessary for residents and users.
Parc Méridia, a landscaped area
This urban development goes hand in hand with the preservation and enhancement of natural and agricultural areas. Under the Territorial Development Directive (DTA), a minimum of fifty hectares of agricultural land will be preserved. The agricultural zone to the north of the perimeter is intended to be the subject of an agricultural project. The district will revolve around a large landscaped park of 20 ha (larger than the Promenade du Paillon (15ha)) on this historically and symbolically agricultural and landscaped territory, for a recapture of nature in areas that are now very degraded. This park will be built under the contracting authority of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis.
"Living in the park, the furrows" according to Architecturestudio
The winning group proposes a soft urbanization, where desirable density, plural diversity, efficient and flexible meshwork and continuous landscape mingle. The challenge is to promote a strong link with the 20 ha park in a subtle cohabitation with the sports facilities of the Sports park and in a dialogue with the natural and agricultural areas going up towards the Allianz Riviera and its eco-district. Quality of life, environmental exemplarity and innovation will be the fundamentals of Parc Méridia. The district takes shape according to a principle of furrows from east to west to open the buildings on the landscape of the plain of the Var. The urban framework is an extension of that of the traditional city and of Nice Méridia.
A 20-hectare park that is part of the greening plan of Nice, a green city in the Mediterranean
In the 300th century, Nice was already the garden city of Europe. This exceptionally preserved heritage is one of the major axes of the development of the city and the metropolis Nice Côte d'Azur. To the more than 50 hectares of green spaces already accessible to the public in Nice and in addition to the 2025 new hectares of parks and gardens which are scheduled by the end of 30, including 10ha on the large landscaped park of the Var plain, XNUMXha on the extension of the Promenade du Paillon, thus adds the park of the Grand Méridia eco-district to the west of the historic center of Nice, in the OIN where town planning is based on an ecological transition model. It is not only a question of creating a new natural space. “It is about developing, enhancing the complementarities between city and countryside and preserving precious resources” according to Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis, Deputy President of the Provence Alpes Côte Region Azure,
As of 2008, these priorities and in particular the Green and Blue Trame were included in the Local Urban Plan of Nice. This made it possible to preserve agricultural and natural spaces, in particular those of the hills and the plain of the Var, but also to redevelop the culture of market gardening as a structuring economic element, echoing the strong agricultural vocation of the place. Thanks to all the efforts made in favor of the greening of the territory, Nice counts 1 tree for 5 inhabitants, which is one of the greenest municipalities in France.
These new green spaces considerably increase the permeable surface of the territory, making it possible to sustainably improve the drainage of public spaces and gradually eliminate heat islands.
They attenuate episodes of flooding or water runoff and promote infiltration into underground water reserves to restore the soil to its natural role as a sponge by preventing network saturation.
Parc Méridia, a major operation of the second phase of Nice Écovallée
Ten years after the creation of the Nice Écovallée National Interest Operation, the first phase of development is completed with the delivery of the first public facilities and real estate programs in Grand Arénas, the business district to live 100% on the Riviera, and Nice Méridia, the urban technopole in the heart of the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolis. While a new metropolitan centrality is emerging, acclaimed by residents and businesses who are creating jobs there around the future multimodal transport hub and tram lines 2 and 3, a new page has been written for Nice Écovallée since the approval in December 2019 of the Partnership Development Project contract. This PPA contract identifies three new operations, the hamlet of La Baronne à la Gaude, Lingostière sud and Parc Méridia for the period 2019-2032.