Mathieu SOUQUIERE - Director of strategy for "Eau de Paris".
In 2009, Paris becomes the first french city to adopt public ownership of its water, "Eau de Paris" (Water of Paris).
Its director of strategy, Mathieu Souquière, will enlighten us on the activities of this public enterprise that manages the drinking water of the city. From the protection of the environments where it is captured to what it becomes after its rejection, passing by a whole routing and distribution process, he will reveal to us this path of the invisible. Specificity of Paris; the city also has a water system for non-potable water managed by "Eau de Paris" as well.
The water here being a resource suitable for consumption, "Eau de Paris" pays special attention to its quality as well as its cost and the social impact that it can have.
Marie PIRE - Landscape Hydrologist.
Marie Pire, landscape designer specialized in city water, realized the projects of "fertile hyrophilic cities".
A long project management experience in the heart of a Parisian firm immersed her in a reflection on rain water integrated in the urban project. Today she works on research projects concerning the relations that water and the city could maintain.
Initially considered like a danger in the city, water becomes a fundamental resource, a design tool and a source of technical and ecological human benefits. By putting an emphasis on the profitable exchanges between water and vegetation (irrigation, purification, infiltration,...) and more largely on the symbiotic interactions between water and the city, Marie Pire can give us a glimpse of a fertile city as global ecosystem, drawing forces from water resources.
WATER AS RESSOURCE
Wednesday March 5th, 2014
In the Bernard Huet amphitheater at the school of Architecture Paris Belleville
60, bd de La Villette 75019 Paris
From the moment it is captured to the moment it is reprocessed, water destined for consumption always follows a course, oftentimes invisible yet not without repercussions on our health and our way of life. Devoted to our approach on the cycles of materials, we bring attention to this resource that is water, to its quality and the transformations that it implies, as well as its distribution and its rejection.
Phytofiltration, double networks, capture and treatment of rainwater are devices that, besides their functions, can make visible these water cycles.
Edouard Sors - Architect and Urban Planner.
Edouard Sors orients his practice and research at an urban scale towards the development of the water on site and the development of the site by the water.
He integrates an "architectural waterbone" in his projects thus creating interactions between water and what's built and leads to prescribe short cycles of sanitation and reuse of treated waters. This measure has been noticed by the ADEME (second "Esquisse Verte" prize in 2005), practiced in the studies of the definition of an Eco-neighborhood or Eco-village, and is promoted in the framework of International Workshops.
He will expose to us this way of thinking and will present cases of regional studies on integrated management of the resource in which the management is divided, the cycles curtailed, the techniques naturalized and the governance of this resource evolves.