The project, which feeds the programme of Adaptive infrastructure, deals with a large and complex site that the metropolis aims to transform. The questions in this project regard agricultural land, numerous infrastructures, an airport, residential areas, a campus...
51N4E is selected through a study the bureau made in collaboration with Ville Ouverte, LOLA, 2001, Systematica, Transsolar, Bollinger+Grohmann, Créaspace.
Their approach started from a double-sided consideration: the delicate and urgent task of carbon neutrality by 2050 makes it necessary to start with a precise methodology that measures the impact of each step. At the same time, it is vital to define the local incentives and obstacles to the implementation of these measures. Spatial planning must be reinvented to respond to these two pillars. In order to achieve these ambitions, they have assembled a team experienced in building a quantified multi-stakeholder pathway to net zero, and who have worked closely in the Lyon context with citizens, experts and practitioners.