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Competitive Dialogue: Design contract for the redevelopment of the Lergue and Soulondres riverbanks and the creation of a performance venue within a heritage complex

A priority district in the heart of Lodève, the Lergue and Soulondres sector concentrates urban fragmentation, social vulnerability, and major landscape potential.

As part of the national Quartiers de Demain program and a competitive dialogue, we support the City in transforming this strategic area. The goal: to make landscape — rivers, canals, brownfields, topography — the main lever for a qualitative, low-impact, reversible, and livable intensification.

The project focuses on several key actions: redeveloping the Lergue and Soulondres riverbanks, creating a major structuring public park, reactivating brownfield sites through housing and productive uses, and rehabilitating heritage buildings to host a neighborhood cultural facility.

Our approach draws on existing local resources, residents’ narratives, and a fine-grained reading of the territory to shape realistic, frugal, and desirable transformation scenarios.

 

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Client
GIP EPAU, Ville de Lodève

Team
BattleiRoig – Landscape, Architecture & Urban Planning, lead consultant
URBASTUDIO – Associate urban architect
NOMMOS – Associate urban architect
SAPIENS – Associate urban architect
INGEROP – Civil engineering (Infrastructure)
Actierra – Hydraulic engineering

Location
Lodève, Herault

Year
en cours

Program
Redevelopment of the Lergue and Soulondres riverbanks and creation of a performance venue within a heritage site

Area
Territorial landscape

France, Hérault (34), Lodève, sur le chemin de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle
Lecture Les pieds dans l’eau BERGES DE LA SOULONDRE, AU PIED DU PONT ROMAN Festival de poésie, voix de la méditerranée. Lodève, DIMANCHE 22 JUILLET 2007 Photos Gilles Hutchinson
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