In Rennes, the Courrouze district will soon host an alternative place dedicated to the social and solidarity economy in former industrial halls.
To preserve this heritage, the metropolis wishes to give itself time for reflection and proposes a temporary occupation of four years.
In particular, a large recycling center will take up residence there, probably accompanied by an associative café in order to create links in a district that is still under development.
Soon an alternative district in Rennes?
In La Courrouze, the industrial halls long occupied by the military industry will offer themselves a much more peaceful second life.
The public developer Territoires has received instructions from Rennes Métropole to create an original place there, combining economic, social and solidarity, an associative café and housing.
Much remains to be done to draw the outlines of this project called "Halles en commun" but the spirit infused borrows from great achievements.
We think of Les Grands Voisins, in Paris, where an incredible temporary living space was set up for almost five years in a former disused hospital.
Or the old parking lot of Saint-Sauveur station in Lille, which hosted shows, shared gardens and artists' studios while waiting to be transformed.
In Rennes, the project will really take shape at the end of March, when the Courrouze halls will be vacated by the Euro-Shelter company, which manufactures mobile units there for medical or military use.
“We ended up with empty buildings that we didn't yet know what to do with.
The main idea is to preserve this industrial heritage but to allow time to reflect on its future,” explains Mehdi Teffahi, operations manager at Territoires.
The four-hectare site offers 11,000 m² of buildings which will be preserved.
To do what ?
A hybrid “car-free” district with approximately 200 housing units, a wide green pedestrian street and mixed-use offices.
But not right now.
For four years,
This Tuesday, the public developer is organizing a breakfast to present the entire project and the call for expressions of interest in the old boiler room.
This 220 m² building should quickly accommodate a commercial activity in connection with the existing structures.
Undoubtedly a hybrid place mixing associative café and cultural space.
A kind of headquarters around which the fifteen structures will come to articulate from this summer.
"It's a place that will allow us to federate, to share our best practices", explains Tristan Gaillard, co-founder of Em Boite le Plat.
Its structure offers reusable packaging to restaurateurs in order to avoid over-packaging.
Both he and his partner are very excited about the idea of joining Courrouze.
La Belle Déchette will probably wait until early 2023 to migrate to the brick halls with their charming metal framework.
It must be said that the relocation of the resource center promises to be particularly cumbersome.
“We feel a lot of impatience.
For now, La Courrouze is still very residential, but that's changing.
We have seen the arrival of the Petite Rennes (bicycle self-repair workshop) or the Antipode.
The neighborhood is changing!
Tomorrow, we will have plenty of actors around us to create links, to be complementary, ”says Julie Orhant, director of La Belle Déchette.
In the halls, the association specializing in reuse will benefit from a sales space twice as large as it hopes to be "friendly, open to the neighborhood".
For four years, the fifteen structures hosted will benefit from a moderate rent which should enable them to test their economic model.
They will be housed in 20th century halls which will eventually be demolished.
Time for the developer to fix up the other halls, those of heritage interest.
“The site is arid, very industrial.
The challenge of transforming it into a living space is great, but it arouses curiosity.
We hope to be able to create an entrepreneurship center there, participatory housing projects, workshops and commercial activities open to the public,” says Mehdi Teffahi.
What will become of the fifteen structures after four years?
The La Belle Déchette recycling center will remain there but everything remains open for the others.
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The fifteen structures that will be hosted
The developer Territoires has already chosen fifteen structures which will be housed in the Halles en commun project.
La Belle Déchette, Bâti Recup, L'Atelier Commun, Elan Créateur, L'équipière, Electroni-k, La Caverne, En can le plat, Teenage Kicks, Madeleine Adore, Rennes du compost, Les Animes, Aître, Anne- Elisabeth Bertucci and Cartel [BZH] will gradually set up their offices there.
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