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Le Pavillon de l’Arsenal questions the landscape of Paris from the street. Shops, businesses, these quotidian spaces define our living environment. Today numerous initiatives, such as those of SEMAEST for conservation of convenience and private stores, transform the way of valuing our ground floors. Through singular examples and through specific politics, the exhibition tries to analyze current trends and expectations, but also to reveal the potential of tomorrow.
" Paris is
a city of ground floor, from Haussmann to Zac of 20th century, including big
collective residences of the 1970s. A diversity of typologies and forms, mainly
registered in alignment of the street, maintain diverse activities on ground
floors and make an active space of the city.
The ground floor and economic activities, which slip there, are both private and public. Indeed, the level 0 engenders few private uses, although it is established by blocks rather tight and protected. Contrary to cities as Berlin or Copenhagen, where there is a culture of shared privacy, Parisian ground floors rare invest in it. There is a real separation between the superior levels, occupied by individuals, and the level of the street, which belongs to the city.
Thus the ground floor is for Paris a question "of public interest" and about 260 000 locals which live in it have to contribute to produce an added value to the urban environment...
GRAU architectes – urbanist and scientific commisioner
"Challenges for neighborhood life, economic development and conservation of commercial diversity establishthe dominating activity of Semaest today, with regard to its original mission of arrangement and construction.
This problem is not specific in Paris: it concerns the urban areas of all big cities, which see traditional small shops disappear and fight for its preservation. This event also reviews the tools of intervention to promote their necessary evolution. It is thus an invitation on second thought that we propose, with the will to show that the presence and the preservation of the convenience store and the small business in districts is at the heart of the vitality of our cities... "
Didier Dely, Directeur Général de la SEMAEST
The ground floor and economic activities, which slip there, are both private and public. Indeed, the level 0 engenders few private uses, although it is established by blocks rather tight and protected. Contrary to cities as Berlin or Copenhagen, where there is a culture of shared privacy, Parisian ground floors rare invest in it. There is a real separation between the superior levels, occupied by individuals, and the level of the street, which belongs to the city.
Thus the ground floor is for Paris a question "of public interest" and about 260 000 locals which live in it have to contribute to produce an added value to the urban environment...
GRAU architectes – urbanist and scientific commisioner
"Challenges for neighborhood life, economic development and conservation of commercial diversity establishthe dominating activity of Semaest today, with regard to its original mission of arrangement and construction.
This problem is not specific in Paris: it concerns the urban areas of all big cities, which see traditional small shops disappear and fight for its preservation. This event also reviews the tools of intervention to promote their necessary evolution. It is thus an invitation on second thought that we propose, with the will to show that the presence and the preservation of the convenience store and the small business in districts is at the heart of the vitality of our cities... "
Didier Dely, Directeur Général de la SEMAEST
