The Ports of Victor and Issy-les-Moulineaux in figures

• A port site in western Paris: Victor (Paris) and Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine)
• A 1,200-metre port with an average width of 25 to 30 metres.
• Industrial activities:
• 4 public works companies (Lafarge, Cemex, Raboni and Unibéton)
• The SYCTOM incinerator (Paris household waste processing)
• Port traffic through Victor and Issy-les-Moulineaux: 1.1 million tonnes a year.
• The site represents 5% of the traffic of the Autonomous Port of Paris.

The urban environment

The site is located in a dense urban zone along a busy road (the D7). It is in an area dominated mainly by service-sector activities, and one that is in the throes of change, with new property developments and public facilities (tram, RER).

Complete site rehabilitation project

The redevelopment of the Port of Victor in Paris and the Port of Issy-les-Moulineaux was decided on back in 2003. The Autonomous Port of Paris decided to take the opportunity provided by the renewal of the farmout contracts with the companies on the site to carry out a full redevelopment programme.

Creating mixed-use facilities: industrial use / passenger services
The purpose of the redevelopment is to:

• Consolidate the industrial activities on the site.
• Create two passenger landing stages in the Port of Issy-les-Moulineaux, one for scheduled transport services and the other for (larger) cruise vessels.
• Organise the layout of the public areas to make them dual-purpose: industrial traffic on weekdays / pedestrian access along the riverbanks at weekends.
• Create a (shared) public port under the Périphérique (Paris orbital) to meet occasional demands for evacuation via the river.
• Take up the twofold challenge of integrating the site into the landscape and of architectural quality

To meet these requirements, the Autonomous Port of Paris organised an architectural competition. As a result of this, and after consulting with the four local authorities concerned by the project (municipalities of Paris and Issy-les-Moulineaux, the Hauts-de-Seine département and the Ile-de-France region), a multidisciplinary team was selected. This team comprises the HYL landscaping group, Feichtinger Architects (who also designed the Simone de Beauvoir footbridge), the Coplan engineering design office for roads and networks, ISL engineering design office for the structures on the river and Coup d’Éclat to design the site lighting.
Other measures were also taken by the Autonomous Port of Paris to guarantee the quality and harmony of the architectural and landscaping design of the port site as a whole. A set of architecture and landscape guidelines was drawn up (defining general principles for the development of the land that is farmed out) and given to all the businesses in the port zone, among others.

Work scheduled to start in early 2010

"We are now in the project study finalisation and validation phase, and will soon be issuing the calls for tender for the work. The work wil be starting in early 2010 on the industrial part of the project, while construction of the passenger landing zone will be starting at the end of 2010", says Hervé Lemaire, Project Manager at the Autonomous Port of Paris.