Richez Associes

The project for this tropical, island-based EcoCité moved one step closer to realisation with the tender process to appoint a masterplanner. The consortium led by Richez_Associés, preselected as one of four international teams, has both conceptual and operational ambitions for the project, which lend themselves well in responding to the brief for “a model project in the Indian Ocean for the overseas French departments and an example of a sustainable city in a tropical climate”. Because, beyond meeting the criteria for certification as ‘sustainable’, is an important local issue: how best to use the island’s available land, a coastal plain delimited by mountains. It’s time to invent a particular kind of urbanism for a tropical EcoCité.