Smartseille, a new living space for Marseille

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Smartseille, a new living space for Marseille

In the 15th district of Marseille, the new eco-neighborhood Allar settles. The first batch is being delivered and completion is scheduled for 2018.

Built on Arenc industrial wasteland, this development is the result of a reflection that began in 2007, the prospective laboratory on sustainable city "Phosphore". Through this program, the Eiffage group, wanted to feed the international public debate on sustainable urban planning and provide a concrete response in line with the environmental complex issues, economic and sociological for the sustainable city of the future.

Beyond solutions and technological innovations that make it up, the Allar’s block mission is to deliver social cohesion, wellbeing, and the use center its approach. Conceived and designed with the HQVie approach, the neighbourhood is built around five major themes which are:

  • Energy efficiency
  • Sustainable construction
  • The diversity, scalability and intelligence spaces
  • Eco-mobility
  • The water and environmental services.

It is a new type of neighbourhood emerging in Marseille, designed to meet the environmental challenges and the specific needs of its inhabitants. This place aims to recreate a strong link between the different stakeholders. To do this, the establishment of a neighbourhood janitorial, with the aim to be a real engine to create a social dynamic and become a meeting point where the residents will have access to a customized range of services which will offer scalable and tailored to their needs.

Promoting a strong social mix, this urban block aims to make cohabit all ages with the creation of an intergenerational residence.

The shared offer of services within the neighbourhood is a social innovation that will allow both to achieve economies of scale and foster "living together".

To lute against the effect of urban heat island and preserve biodiversity, the planner intends to create urban agriculture including a social and educational garden and a hydroponic greenhouse. Adopt a friendly management of biodiversity by providing a maintenance "zero phyto", reducing light pollution related to public lighting and feeding as much as possible areas of open ground with runoff water.

 The eco-neighbourhood Allar is also a technical innovation vector, a showcase for sustainable construction, eco-mobility and urban ecosystems.

In contrast to the "all technology", the project thus aims to offer expertise "low cost / easy tech" more adapted to the economic context and the legitimate requirement of reproducibility.

For space heating and ventilation of buildings, the block will be equipped with a thalasso-thermic loop. This major innovation consists in building a tempered water system that the balancing source is seawater drawn from medium depth off the docks resulting in a almost constant temperature. 

A thermic Smart Grid (Intelligent Network) to create the energy solidarity.  Hot water storages devices installed in each building that will maintain surpluses in-vacancy, such as air conditioning of offices, to return them in peak time of consumption.

An energy coaching program is embedded to encourage people to optimize their consumption and which has the ambition that the users themselves become the best spokesperson for energy ecosystem of the Allar demonstrator.

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