UNSFA unveils the winners of the 17th edition of the Citizen Project Prize

Created in 2001, on the initiative of UNESCO and placed under the high sponsorship of the Minister of Culture, the Citizen Project Prize distinguishes a concerted approach at the service of architectural, urban planning, development and landscape, proving that architectural quality is not a privilege of architects and owners but a right of citizens.

Composed of a winner, a special mention and a special prize, the 2017 prize list illustrates again this year the dynamics of UNESCO in favor of participatory approaches, associating the three key players in an exemplary concertation process: master owner, project manager-architect and owner-citizen.

The jury, made up of architects, journalists and institutional representatives (Ministry of Culture, Directorate General of Heritage, Confédération Syndicale des Familles, Association of Mayors of France ...) elected three achievements bearing an innovative concept, sublimated by the idea of ​​thinking about a "better life" together, by imagining shared spaces and projects with strong social stakes and local roots which are part of the humanist dimension of the Citizen Project Prize.

Bio-based materials, development of short circuits, good recycling practices, development of local resources, materials from demolition, creation of local jobs, diversity and ability to adapt to new uses ..., they are witnesses a desire to build and develop in favor of the social, united and circular economy and environmental development in the territories.

Winner: Tendon Hall - Tendon (88)

• Client: Municipality of Tendon
• Master of use: Associations of the municipality and public schools
• Project manager : HAHA architecture workshop - Claude Valentin
• Program : Recreational equipment for social, cultural, sporting and special events
• Living area : 440 m2 covered hall - Cost: € 295 excluding tax - Consultation meetings: 000

The equipment located in the heart of the village has a double vocation: the hosting of annual festivities (bread festival, hunters' meal, Saint-Jean festival) and the organization of activities related to the nursery school. The hall can accommodate 400 people in a configuration intended for the organization of events. The users are the social, cultural and sports associations of the municipality and the children benefit from the hall during their recreation and extracurricular activities.

The location of the hall highlights the remarkable landscape feature of the town, a wetland protected by its precious biodiversity. The stands, the belvedere and the surroundings of the equipment closely link users to this large landscape and anchor the project in its context of Vosges village. As a pilot demonstration, the project promotes the artisanal know-how of local sawmills, the use of bio-based materials and local wood (Douglas fir) in a cantilever type structure.

The cover is provided by translucent polycarbonate plates, placed on a wooden lath directly fixed on the frame, offering transparency games. In order to control the impact of the sun's rays in the hall, battens are used directly on the rafters, to control the intensity of the light and blackout blinds along the facade complete the device. The location of the hall was designed to limit its influence on the surrounding green spaces of the square.

Launched since 2008, the project was developed at length by discussions between associations and the municipal council. The need for large assemblies and dismantling of marquees during the summer festivities governed the constructive choices of the hall. Its study was carried out in two stages: definition of the overall plan for the redevelopment of the square in 2010, then after the construction of the extracurricular program, resumption of the preliminary studies in 2013.

The excellent response from future users was confirmed in the face of equipment with a bold architecture, focused on the quality of atmospheres and better living together by developing associative activities. The appropriation of the place was reinforced by the use of communal wood in the structure and the capacity of the team of the commune united around it all the actors to carry out this project with strong cultural and social stake and local anchoring.

Special Jury Prize: La Fabrique du Clos! Stains (93)

• Client: Seine Saint-Denis Habitat, Plaine Commune
• Masters of use: Régie de Stains, Bellastock, local associations, residents
• Project manager : Bellastock, association of experimental architecture - Mathilde Billet
• Program : Experimental site equipment
• Living area : 900 m2 - Cost: 175 € HT - Consultation meetings: 000

La Fabrique du Clos, experimental site equipment offered by Bellastock, which is behind the hybrid site design in transforming sites, is anchored in the Clos Saint-Lazare Urban Renovation project in Stains.

At the neighborhood level, the project aims to open up and transform it in depth for the better living of the inhabitants. The Factory has established itself on a vacant and hybrid site since the demolition of a tower. This wasteland serves both as a recycling center to store materials from demolition, as a prototype experiment for reuse for future urban spaces and buildings, as a place of conviviality for the inhabitants (garden, stage, etc.), training (site with companies in integration).

The project integrates residents and future users through training sites in collaboration with the Régie (integration company) of Stains, on the management of the place and the preparation of re-use materials, animation times with schoolchildren (around workshop to imagine furniture in re-use materials, gardening), public awareness to explain the process and offer the opportunity for residents to lend a hand for small improvement works, collaboration with local associations so that they take over the place (especially in summer for taverns, outdoor games, workshops, shows).

At the territorial level, the project constitutes a capsule for setting up an SSE (Structures of the Social and Solidarity Economy) for the re-use of materials and developing the economic attractiveness of the territory. The recycling site is a place for recycling materials from the demolition of the district that have become building materials. It is also a demonstrative showcase of re-employment opportunities (architectural quality, awareness of the living environment, creation of local jobs through training in ESS companies ...). It makes it possible to offer public developments in collective design and construction, with project management and participatory work, to integrate the site into the life of the district in order to promote the appropriation by all of future constructions.

Mention: reconverstion of the spinning mill of Ronchamp - Rochamp (70)

• Client: Community of Rahin and Chérimont municipalities
• Master of use: Grouping of various interlocutors into 7 "discussion circles"
• Project manager : Cité Architecture Workshop - Bruno Tonfoni
• Living area : 4 m500 + 2 m1 of covered spaces - Cost: € 600 million excl. Tax (2st tranche)
• Concertation meetings: 35

On the site of the former Ronchamp spinning mill, the multi-purpose project is intended to become a real vector of economic, social and cultural attractiveness over an entire territory. The 1st stage of works was delivered in December 2016: sports hall, craftsmen's courtyard, rehearsal studios for musicians, exhibition hall, covered hall, gazebo linked to the chapel of Le Corbusier, meadows for events, cycle path , shared gardens ... The second provides for the delivery in 2018 of a micro-brewery with restaurant area, a coworking area, a bike stop, a crèche, a kitchen, a fablab ...

From the factory enclave, La Filature has left traces which are seized as an opportunity to develop business service activities, new services to the population in the fields of sport, culture, leisure and tourism. The buildings were analyzed according to their ability to adapt to new uses. The initially landlocked site is ultimately organized as a multipurpose district, open to all and for all uses, to create a major public space open on the intermunicipal territory, frequented and generating links.

Inscribed in a territory labeled positive energy territory by the Ministry of Ecology, its environmental exemplarity translates into economic management of space and energy, control of energy consumption, promotion of alternative modes of travel , the development of short circuits, the use of site resources ...

The dialogue conducted, associating future users up to the definition of the future programming of the project, was organized into 7 "discussion circles" with a 1st circle consisting of a steering committee and assistance with project management (Regional Natural Park of Ballons des Vosges, DDT, CAUE, DRAC ...), a second with the actors of a plural project management, a third with the local sectors and economic actors, a fourth to define the temporalities of the project and register it in the event geography of cultural events, a 2th with future users and local associations, a 3th to circumscribe the memory of places, architecture and intangible heritage and a 4th with funders (State, Region, Department, public establishments for intermunicipal cooperation, mass police station, Europe).

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