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thirty houses to demolish, a district to rebuild


The context

The Ravel loop is a bit like the ghost quarter of Thionville. Its thirty pavilions, formerly owned by EDF, are uninhabitable due to a problem of odors and volatile organic compounds emanations from the wooden frame. For Vivest (ex-LogiEst), which inherited this spoiled heritage at the time of the takeover of the lessor Néolia, it is the tile: everything must be demolished.

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An exemplary rehabilitation

Vivest saw its first reconstruction project for eighty homes refused by the town hall. The lessor has revised its copy: the current preliminary project is less dense: there will be sixty new housing units; twenty will be labeled “social housing”; the rest is for sale. Two small collectives, townhouses and eighteen building plots are planned. In addition, around ten plots are intended to find a buyer via a real solidarity lease. This formula makes it possible in a way to buy the walls of his future house, but not the land. Economically, the candidates win and this brings social diversity to the neighborhood.

Vivest has budgeted € 12 million to complete this program. “Above all, we have completely turned the problem around; we are going to carry out a very exemplary operation here,” notes Gabriel Humbert, head of the planning department at Vivest.

Environment, all!

“The town planner who accompanies us has worked on gentle densification, that is to say that we will favor a qualitative environment”, summarizes Benoît Pétry, project manager. Clearly, “we are going to improve this micro-neighborhood. He seemed to have been tackled on the side of the hill. We want to reconnect it to the neighboring forest, create a path that does not exist, a central park, as well as a belvedere from which we will have a view of the city ”. The change promises to be spectacular.

From an environmental point of view, everything will be there: the landscaped valleys to collect rainwater, the roads without sidewalks, the conservation of the most interesting existing trees and the replanting of new subjects, among others.

The first eighteen building lots will be put up for sale in the summer of 2022. At the start of 2023, the last demolitions will take place. The deconstruction was entrusted to the Florange integration company Valo ‘, which is carrying out unprecedented work of recycling and reuse of recoverable materials.

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