Rives de la Haute-Deûle

Rives de la Haute-Deûle is a 38-hectare urban regeneration project on former textile-industry land along the Deûle, transformed into a mixed district shaped by water, landscape and inherited industrial structures. The project retains the canal system, the Le Blan-Lafont mills and the material language of brick, glass and Corten steel as anchors for a new urban landscape.

Nature now plays a central role in the masterplan. Water is managed at the surface through planted swales and rain gardens, existing biodiversity areas are preserved within the development, and the relationship between buildings, public space and landscape is guided by ecological continuity. Housing, employment, public facilities, pedestrian and cycling routes, 15 hectares of public space and 7 hectares of green space are all part of the same long-term transformation of this former industrial territory.