INNOVATION LANDSCAPE DESIGN AT THE HEART OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
As part of its strategy to transform and renew its industrial facilities, Orano is committed to investing significant time and effort in its sites. This work also comes with significant challenges in terms of acceptability, attractiveness and considerations related to environmental sustainability.
As part of its Industry & Regions policy, Orano supports the evolution of its industrial sites so that investments in the redevelopment and renewal of facilities generate economic value, while producing environmental, social and cultural co-benefits. To achieve this, the group relies on skills in urban planning, landscape architecture and design.
URBAN LANDSCAPING AT THE HEART OF OUR INDUSTRIAL SITES
Landscape urbanism emerged in response to desindustrialization. Paris has the Parc André-Citroën, Parc de la Villette, Parc de Bercy and the Coulée Verte green corridor, all of which have benefitted from this process. On a much larger scale, the landscaped parks of the Ruhr in Germany have incorporated ecology into the heart of the industrial basin there. In these examples, landscape architects have successfully created functional spaces where buildings, brownfields, urban environments and nature have all been mixed together. In recent years, Nordic countries1 have taken the opposite approach by using the same resources to make new industrial facilities acceptable, while optimizing their economic value and attractiveness.
ENCOURAGING FEEDBACK FOR ORANO
Multiple partnerships have already allowed us to integrate changes in the group’s industrial sites into a process of continuity, performance and acceptability. For example, the collaboration with the SLA2 agency in 2024 on the Malvési site, the academic project with ESAJ3 in 2025 on the Tricastin site, a third project underway with the TER4 agency on the La Hague site, and a second academic project underway on the Bessines site with the ESAJ.
We have moved from slow evolution to a phase of profound transformation on our sites. This has involved a more professional approach to development, complemented by landscape design skills which are often required when our sites are created.
By combining an industrial perspective and awareness of landscape, we’ve been able to rethink and plan the integration of the Tricastin site into its environment, as well as that of the future O’rizon building. The perspective offered by young students at ESAJ allowed us to better understand the expectations of new generations.
