The building of the Paris city administration got a green facade

In Paris, works have begun on greening the facade of the building of the 17th arrondissement, which is the largest city administration building in this city after the City Assembly. The works will last for a year, as well as the change of the traffic regime on this section of the road, which results in traffic jams and congestion during the works in this part of the city.

The completion of the works was announced for July 2021, and the idea of ​​greening the main facade of this building is not new. It was first mentioned in 2013, when the then mayor of the 17th arrondissement, Françoise de Panifo, announced a competition in 2013 in which the project of the architectural house TOA Architects and Associates won. Seven years later, work worth 1.9 million euros can finally begin.

Works on landscaping the facade of the 12th arrondissement will take place as part of the Paris Climate Plan – known as the Paris Biodiversity Plan 2018-2024 (The 2018-2024 Biodiversity Plan). It is known that green facades achieve great energy savings and improve the thermal insulation of buildings, but the green facade should offer better working conditions to employees in the city administration, as well as citizens of this part of Paris, because it will improve air quality, reduce pollution and reduce the impact of an urban heat island during extreme heat periods. On the concrete facade of this building, which was designed in 1973 by architects Alfred Favre and Pierre Burke, he plans to place hundreds of plant carriers with a large selection of different flowers.

Green areas generally make the urban environment more attractive and have a positive impact on the urban population, and in Paris there are a number of successful examples of greening the facades of residential and public buildings.

In the next year, the works will have consequences on the normal functioning of traffic in the capital of France.Batinjol Street has been closed to all car traffic on the section between Dam and Mariot Street for a month now, and in the surrounding streets the traffic is only in one direction. The current mayor of the 12th arrondissement, Geoffrey Bullard, assures the residents of this part of Paris that the traffic will be completely normalized after the completion of the works.

It is important to note that the maintenance of the building, as well as the watering of plants, will be done from the building itself, and not from the outside, in order to avoid traffic jams, which the residents of this part of Paris – the city that declared war on cars, are most afraid of.