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with the aim of turning it into a model neighbourhood of experiment. Old buildings would be renovated in order to maintain the neighbourhood’s spirit, while the abandoned lands would host the construction of experimental buildings be tting the highest environmental and energetic standards. An adventure made possible by a partnership between the Grand Lyon and the Japanese NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation) and the technologies developed by Toshiba, which aims to test in situ the city of the future. In 2010, Lyon Con uence was recognised as France’s rst sustainable neighbourhood by receiving a WWF label. In the Con uence House (“Maison de la Con uence”), in front of the model of the neighbourhood under construction, Benoit Bardet, head of communications for the project, is enthusiastic. “ e Con uence neighbourhood was created 200 years ago, this is a site which was under water until then, and which has been manually constructed. It has been an industrial area for 150 years, but it was le as a brown eld site with the decline in industrial activities at the end of the 20th century. is is when the political project emerged to double the surface of Lyon’s city centre,” he explains. Lyon’s urban project was ambitious. “From the beginning, the idea was to build a mixed neighbourhood following the principles of sustainable development, and especially in the eld of energy management. We set two goals: to divide by two the buildings’ energy consumption compared to the standards of the time, and to use 80% of renewable energy,” underlines Bardet. “It was a real challenge, and we needed real skills and convictions to impose it to developers,” he says. THE PASSAGE OF LIGHT A few hundred meters away, on the side on the Nautic Square and directly connected to the Saône and heart of the recently revived neighbourhood, stand the Hikari buildings: Higashi (Japanese for “East”), For the Minami building's façade, Kuma used solar panels as an architectural and aesthetic component Lyon, France About the Project ARCHITECT KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES INSTALLER SMAC FIXING SYSTEM TS200 INVISIBLE (CONCEALED) FIXING WITH BRACKETS ON RAILS MARKET SEGMENT COMMERCIAL OFFICES / MULTI HOUSING, APARTMENTS YEAR 2015 TRESPA ® PRODUCT TRESPA ® METEON ® WOOD DECORS FINISH MATT POSITIVE ENERGY BUILDING A POSITIVE ENERGY BUILDING, LIKE HIKARI, IS A BUILDING THAT ANNUALLY PRODUCES MORE ENERGY THAN IT ACTUALLY CONSUMES IN TERMS OF HEATING, COOLING, LIGHTING AND VENTILATION. NW01 NW23 32 Imagine Trespa