Concours PARC URBAIN FORESTIER - TREMBLAy-EN-France

Tremblay Park is the result of a deliberate renunciation: that of a road project abandoned after the construction of the Town Hall along an axis initially intended to become a major traffic route. This decision made it possible to preserve 11 hectares of woodland and to establish a public green lung at the heart of the city. As the legacy of an interrupted project, however, the site appears today as a residual woodland, lacking legibility and insufficiently adapted to the uses expected of a contemporary urban park.

The redevelopment project represents a major opportunity for transformation. It affirms the existing woodland as the raw material of a structuring park, emblematic of Tremblay’s identity as a “forest city”. The regular presence of roe deer reveals that this park is part of a much larger ecological continuum, corresponding to the broader territory of cervid movement. From this observation emerges the ambition to make the park a place of coexistence between the city and a more untamed natural world.

The project is structured around three complementary registers.
First, an urban park organised around an active central axis and a wide, regular clearing, forming the backbone of uses and supporting a gardened, ornamental landscape.
Second, a forest park conceived as a mosaic of environments, inviting a gradual immersion into a diversified woodland. Starting from an existing homogeneous and declining high forest, an ambitious management plan guides the site towards a gardened forest, based on regeneration, stratified diversity and the enhancement of biodiversity.
Finally, a promenade links these two registers. Punctuated by observation hides and viewpoints, it alternates between designed spaces and more wild sequences, revealing the richness and complementarity of the park’s environments.

. Equipe : WAGON LANDSCAPING – paysagistes, mandataire du groupement; MAAJ – Architectes;  SEPHIA – Bureau d’études VRD; I+A Laboratoire des structures – Bureau d’études structures