法國AREP設(shè)計(jì)集團(tuán)

法國AREP設(shè)計(jì)集團(tuán)

AREP

AREP簡介

法國AREP設(shè)計(jì)集團(tuán)創(chuàng)立于1997年，是一家國際綜合性設(shè)計(jì)公司?？偛课挥诜▏屠?，并在北京、上海、越南、摩洛哥、迪拜、多哈、印度、俄羅斯設(shè)有子公司。

AREP集團(tuán)聚集了來自30多個國家的900余名建筑師、規(guī)劃師、設(shè)計(jì)師、工程師、經(jīng)濟(jì)測算師、項(xiàng)目策劃師、運(yùn)營師等，組成了一個實(shí)力雄厚的綜合型國際專業(yè)團(tuán)隊(duì)。業(yè)務(wù)涉及城市建設(shè)和建筑設(shè)計(jì)的多個領(lǐng)域：城市綜合體、交通樞紐與火車站、公共空間、公共設(shè)施、辦公建筑、酒店與住宅、商業(yè)建筑、工業(yè)建筑和技術(shù)廠房等。

作為SNCF（法國國家鐵路總公司）的全資子公司，AREP在2016年創(chuàng)造了1.03億歐元的營業(yè)額。 另外，AREP在 2017年的世界建筑公司100強(qiáng)建筑設(shè)計(jì)方向榜單中名列第32位，是法國第一所登上該榜單的建筑設(shè)計(jì)公司。

AREP — 交通城市空間設(shè)計(jì)

十五年來，AREP設(shè)計(jì)團(tuán)隊(duì)一直致力于城市空間的研究，尤其是針對受當(dāng)代交通系統(tǒng)制約的城市的思考。

自工業(yè)革命開始，城市隨著交通工具機(jī)械化的進(jìn)程而不斷發(fā)展，交通系統(tǒng)也因?yàn)槌鲂蟹绞蕉鄻踊⒉⒅饾u完善。

交通發(fā)展雖然很好地促進(jìn)了城市化進(jìn)程，但是也出現(xiàn)了不可避免的弊端——城市空間與城市功能的分化。因此，當(dāng)今城市的公共生活空間迫切需要改善或重新塑造。

“傾聽”（尊重實(shí)際需要）與“創(chuàng)新”是AREP設(shè)計(jì)團(tuán)隊(duì)的工作標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，在綜合了多種與研究設(shè)計(jì)相關(guān)的行業(yè)，AREP提出了獨(dú)特的、富有創(chuàng)造性的服務(wù)于當(dāng)代市民生活的城市空間設(shè)計(jì)理念。

AREP還設(shè)立了一個針對“動態(tài)城市空間”的常規(guī)研究部門，研究范圍廣、尺度跨度大——從大型都市一直到單體建筑。

AREP 工作方法

用途與場地背景

AREP設(shè)計(jì)的兩大基本依據(jù)是項(xiàng)目的功能性與場地背景：即注重實(shí)際功能與使用效率，尊重當(dāng)?shù)氐赜蝻L(fēng)貌、歷史人文與保護(hù)文物古跡。在進(jìn)行城市空間設(shè)計(jì)時(shí)，AREP團(tuán)隊(duì)不僅重視關(guān)鍵問題，還關(guān)注當(dāng)今社會需求，將設(shè)計(jì)理念轉(zhuǎn)化并融入生活方式、可持續(xù)發(fā)展、場地標(biāo)志性等各個方面。

AREP集團(tuán)聚集了與研究設(shè)計(jì)相關(guān)的各領(lǐng)域人才，并按技術(shù)專業(yè)類型劃分為不同部門，以便更有效地組織開展工作；其業(yè)務(wù)范圍涵蓋了城市規(guī)劃研究設(shè)計(jì)、建筑設(shè)計(jì)、工程設(shè)計(jì)、室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)和城市小品設(shè)計(jì)等多個方面。無論是大尺度的區(qū)域規(guī)劃項(xiàng)目，還是日常小品設(shè)施的設(shè)計(jì)，AREP的設(shè)計(jì)思路和工作方法都是建立在共同的價(jià)值觀與目標(biāo)上，并且具體貫徹到每個部門的工作中。這一橫向的貫穿性與整體性大大有利于強(qiáng)化公司各部門的專業(yè)技能和提高職業(yè)實(shí)踐能力。

迭代法

從考察現(xiàn)實(shí)環(huán)境、聽取多方意見出發(fā)，通過工程師、建筑師、規(guī)劃師、設(shè)計(jì)師各團(tuán)隊(duì)與建設(shè)單位（決策人、投資者、開發(fā)商）之間的交流建立一種迭代法的工作方式，使得城市自身的轉(zhuǎn)變發(fā)展大為受益。

通過多方對話，可以使方案的空間布局與功能設(shè)計(jì)同步進(jìn)行、同時(shí)確定。

AREP團(tuán)隊(duì)的工作不僅僅局限于滿足某個既定的設(shè)計(jì)要求，而是要促進(jìn)結(jié)論、項(xiàng)目、方案的同步擴(kuò)展，還有如何更合理高效地組織、協(xié)調(diào)參與本項(xiàng)目的各方人員。

可持續(xù)發(fā)展的要求

基于適用性與可持續(xù)性，AREP的設(shè)計(jì)理念和方法都遵循可持續(xù)發(fā)展的要求。

? 可持續(xù)是不僅要清楚當(dāng)代人的需求，還要預(yù)計(jì)未來幾代人的需求量?；趶V大民眾的日常生活需要，AREP設(shè)計(jì)的建筑和公共空間都以可持續(xù)發(fā)展的要求為準(zhǔn)則，旨在設(shè)計(jì)可以伴隨生活方式的演變而發(fā)展的城市空間。

? 可持續(xù)是指既滿足當(dāng)代人的需求，又不破壞后代人滿足其自身需求的能力。因此AREP在城市和建筑設(shè)計(jì)中注重使環(huán)保材料和清潔能源，并不斷尋求更高效、更環(huán)保的解決方案。

? 可持續(xù)發(fā)展包含了文化可持續(xù)，即延續(xù)當(dāng)?shù)氐臍v史與人文。AREP認(rèn)為，從空間、時(shí)間和文化等方面深入了解項(xiàng)目所在地，并改善提升現(xiàn)存的環(huán)境狀況，是整個設(shè)計(jì)過程中必不可少的前期工作。

? 城市可持續(xù)是城市發(fā)展既要適宜人類居住又要富有吸引力。AREP強(qiáng)調(diào)公共空間在城市協(xié)調(diào)性中的首要地位，通過協(xié)調(diào)交通與城市化、結(jié)合自然環(huán)境和人造環(huán)境來促進(jìn)城市面貌和功能的改善。

? 可持續(xù)的發(fā)展進(jìn)程是遵循城市自身的“新陳代謝”。從項(xiàng)目的概念設(shè)計(jì)階段開始，AREP就全面地考慮到氣候、能源、水資源、垃圾處理等問題，以確保城市的環(huán)境質(zhì)量及其居民的生活質(zhì)量。

AREP 設(shè)計(jì)的七大尺度

一直以來，城市或地區(qū)的大規(guī)模城鎮(zhèn)發(fā)展都是以區(qū)域發(fā)展藍(lán)圖為依據(jù)，而這個藍(lán)圖又是根據(jù)社會經(jīng)濟(jì)、司法（主要是城市規(guī)劃法規(guī)）和科技（大型基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)）的發(fā)展進(jìn)程而制定。

以方案的形式來規(guī)劃土地，就是設(shè)計(jì)師團(tuán)隊(duì)根據(jù)客觀資料和主觀意愿、可量化或感性化的信息提出一份空間規(guī)劃總章程，同時(shí)為這個多元化的綜合進(jìn)程指明方向，并統(tǒng)籌全局。

無論是在法國還是在世界其他地方，這個新型的概念方式已然成為一個典范。圍繞交通與城市化發(fā)展之間的關(guān)系這一中心，AREP展開了廣泛而深入的研究與工作，其尺度主要表現(xiàn)為七個方面：區(qū)域；城市；街區(qū)；公共空間；城市綜合體；建筑；室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)、家具設(shè)施、城市小品。

1、區(qū)域

在區(qū)域（省、地區(qū)、大城市）規(guī)劃這方面，AREP通過觀察現(xiàn)實(shí)情況、分析環(huán)境變化、經(jīng)濟(jì)和社會發(fā)展，聯(lián)合有關(guān)部門（政府部門、地方機(jī)構(gòu)……）制定區(qū)域規(guī)劃發(fā)展策略。

每當(dāng)AREP進(jìn)行區(qū)域改造規(guī)劃時(shí)，都堅(jiān)持一個中心思想：統(tǒng)一的設(shè)計(jì)理念貫穿整個改造區(qū)域，從整體看來，所有相關(guān)的地區(qū)被視為一個整體地塊。在此意義上，只有具體化和空間化的產(chǎn)物才可以成為將來的可能。這個成果則是通過多線程的工作方式，將各相關(guān)業(yè)者的工作成果整合而來，同時(shí)也是整個工作團(tuán)隊(duì)的共同目標(biāo)，還能指導(dǎo)以后的各項(xiàng)集體工作。

2、城市

在城市的尺度下，從發(fā)展中國家在經(jīng)濟(jì)飛速發(fā)展下的城市擴(kuò)張，到發(fā)達(dá)國家對后工業(yè)時(shí)代的城市改建，需要面對的問題各不相同，情況也更為復(fù)雜。

在面對不同情況時(shí)，AREP從地方環(huán)境需要和實(shí)際功能需求出發(fā)，實(shí)事求是，因地制宜，提出可持續(xù)城市的研究、設(shè)計(jì)的“情景法”。

城市的轉(zhuǎn)型和改造應(yīng)當(dāng)以滿足當(dāng)代生活需求為目標(biāo)，要為不斷產(chǎn)生新事物的世界文化建立交流平臺，又要為本地文化的特殊需求提供交匯點(diǎn)。

3、街區(qū)

無論是在自然環(huán)境、農(nóng)業(yè)地區(qū)、都市城鎮(zhèn)或是工業(yè)地區(qū)，建設(shè)一個新的街區(qū)，即是為此地的歷史書寫一頁新篇章。

AREP在進(jìn)行街區(qū)設(shè)計(jì)時(shí)，注重團(tuán)隊(duì)的整體統(tǒng)籌及各個部門的專業(yè)角色，采用“跨領(lǐng)域”的綜合設(shè)計(jì)方式：嚴(yán)格處理動態(tài)系統(tǒng)（交通）和靜態(tài)空間之間的關(guān)系，及其合理性，因?yàn)檫@是構(gòu)成公共空間的兩大基本元素；以尊重環(huán)境為本，積極開發(fā)城市的生態(tài)自我調(diào)節(jié)——城市新陳代謝；激發(fā)項(xiàng)目所在區(qū)域的潛在能力。

4、公共空間

隨著城市日新月異的功能發(fā)展，城市公共空間也必需重新審視、塑造、定位。

AREP充分發(fā)揮其在交通流線和綜合交通樞紐設(shè)計(jì)上的優(yōu)勢，將其應(yīng)用于城市公共空間的規(guī)劃、設(shè)計(jì)中。公共活動場所、大眾空間、公共和個體交通與停留空間、現(xiàn)代多元化交通與步行空間的結(jié)合，都是AREP的設(shè)計(jì)內(nèi)容，尤其是交通系統(tǒng)與公共空間的有機(jī)結(jié)合，因?yàn)榻煌ㄏ到y(tǒng)與城市功能的分化已有半個多世紀(jì)，當(dāng)代的新城市必然要將兩者融合到一起，優(yōu)先滿足人的需求。

5、城市綜合體

當(dāng)代都市生活要素：交通出行、人際交往、獲得各種城鎮(zhèn)服務(wù)……為了構(gòu)造服務(wù)完善、功能集中的城鎮(zhèn)中心或區(qū)域中心，以及方便市民生活，交通樞紐及其周邊地區(qū)往往成為首選之地。

從大巴黎地區(qū)到北京城，或是意大利的都靈，AREP都設(shè)計(jì)建設(shè)了這樣的城市綜合體：集合了辦公和服務(wù)、酒店、住宅、商業(yè)、公共設(shè)施（幼兒園、學(xué)校等）或私人物業(yè)等多種功能于一身場所，成為大眾活動交流的空間，也成為了日常生活中的重要場所。

6、建筑

6.1、綜合交通樞紐

綜合交通樞紐可謂是當(dāng)代動態(tài)城市之關(guān)鍵。作為一個人流、物流高度密集的城市公共空間，它不但可以成為重要的城市服務(wù)中心，而且更趨向發(fā)展成市民“共同生活”的重要場所。它不僅是重要的城市功能中心，還可以是一個城市的地標(biāo)，因此，綜合交通樞紐通常會成為一個城市規(guī)劃和發(fā)展的中心或是參照點(diǎn)。

6.2、公共設(shè)施、服務(wù)與商業(yè)

所有的大型公共設(shè)施都是面向大眾的(博物館和其他文化設(shè)施、醫(yī)院、體育場館、商業(yè)區(qū)……)，以優(yōu)質(zhì)的功能性、強(qiáng)烈的地標(biāo)性來滿足當(dāng)?shù)鼐用窕騾⒂^者的各種需求。

6.3、住宅與酒店

考量當(dāng)今城市中住宅、酒店的地位和作用，不能僅停留在個體居住空間內(nèi)的設(shè)計(jì)和布局，而是應(yīng)該將城市的各種服務(wù)、功能與其適配，將城市公共空間與之相聯(lián)結(jié)。

6.4、商務(wù)空間

商務(wù)空間是展現(xiàn)新時(shí)代工作方式的場所：專業(yè)領(lǐng)域、文化氛圍和個人空間的相互融合，可促進(jìn)企業(yè)管理者之間的交流與合作計(jì)劃，又能增加人與人之間的溝通機(jī)會。

7、室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)、家具設(shè)施、城市小品

室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)和家具設(shè)計(jì)的理念來源總是需要縱觀規(guī)劃或建筑的整體，并與之相協(xié)調(diào)。在室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)這一領(lǐng)域，AREP主要著眼于連接室內(nèi)、室外的公共轉(zhuǎn)換空間，其中，交通流量與安全問題是需要優(yōu)先考慮及解決的。這類轉(zhuǎn)換空間其實(shí)是一個綜合服務(wù)區(qū)：從基本設(shè)施、等候服務(wù)到指示標(biāo)志都包含其中。

為了更好地處理公共場所的條件制約，滿足使用者的各種需求，AREP從二級工程（除承重結(jié)構(gòu)外的）元素設(shè)計(jì)，直到家具設(shè)施設(shè)計(jì)都統(tǒng)一把握。

AREP業(yè)務(wù)范圍

建筑設(shè)計(jì)

建筑設(shè)計(jì)方案應(yīng)秉承嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)膽B(tài)度上，必須深入理解基本使用功能及拓展工程技術(shù)要求。

因此，AREP團(tuán)隊(duì)通過各種不同類型的項(xiàng)目，來表達(dá)相同的設(shè)計(jì)理念：當(dāng)代的建筑設(shè)計(jì)方案應(yīng)當(dāng)是符合當(dāng)今社會發(fā)展需求、適應(yīng)當(dāng)代生活模式和展現(xiàn)地方標(biāo)志性的。

AREP在設(shè)計(jì)建設(shè)功能性要求極高的空間場所這一方面擁有獨(dú)到的優(yōu)勢，尤其是城市綜合規(guī)劃項(xiàng)目中的公共建筑部分（綜合型交通樞紐、公共設(shè)施、綜合項(xiàng)目等）：項(xiàng)目編制；建筑設(shè)計(jì)；研究；工程預(yù)算；進(jìn)度編制；工程管理；項(xiàng)目協(xié)調(diào)。

產(chǎn)品設(shè)計(jì)

AREP的小品設(shè)計(jì)最先是針對交通樞紐或是城市交通空間而設(shè)立的，而后發(fā)展至城市小品、公共空間設(shè)施等等。

AREP團(tuán)隊(duì)對待設(shè)計(jì)尺度比較小的區(qū)域，如同對待大尺度的城市設(shè)計(jì)一般，規(guī)劃師、建筑師、景觀師、設(shè)計(jì)師以及工程師都獻(xiàn)技參與：室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)；家具與城市小品；信號、標(biāo)識系統(tǒng)；火車設(shè)計(jì)。

城市規(guī)劃

從大規(guī)模區(qū)域規(guī)劃的大尺度到城市空間的小尺度，空間問題都被看做是方案設(shè)計(jì)的主導(dǎo)和發(fā)展?jié)摿Α?/p>

AREP的規(guī)劃研究工作從規(guī)劃方案設(shè)定開始，一直持續(xù)到確定城市形態(tài)、城市公共空間的建設(shè)，其中還包括了地產(chǎn)增值、項(xiàng)目前期工作和運(yùn)做說明等。

為建設(shè)可持續(xù)發(fā)展的城市空間，AREP團(tuán)隊(duì)聯(lián)合地方機(jī)構(gòu)一起進(jìn)行規(guī)劃概念設(shè)計(jì)，并統(tǒng)籌項(xiàng)目運(yùn)作時(shí)間。促進(jìn)交通系統(tǒng)轉(zhuǎn)型、提倡步行、發(fā)展綠色交通都是當(dāng)下城市規(guī)劃的關(guān)注焦點(diǎn)：規(guī)劃設(shè)計(jì)策略；方法與發(fā)展方向；可持續(xù)發(fā)展方針與項(xiàng)目編制；客戶支持服務(wù)（咨詢、專業(yè)支持與顧問）；環(huán)境與景觀；交通流動性與綜合型交通系統(tǒng)研究；規(guī)劃項(xiàng)目管理、道路與服務(wù)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施。

市政工程

AREP的設(shè)計(jì)師團(tuán)隊(duì)和工程師團(tuán)隊(duì)都遵循統(tǒng)一的設(shè)計(jì)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，在整個項(xiàng)目的進(jìn)程中，設(shè)計(jì)師與工程師通力合作，結(jié)合各自的專業(yè)技能一同探討、解決項(xiàng)目設(shè)計(jì)中的技術(shù)優(yōu)化問題、可持續(xù)發(fā)展問題、可行性研究和經(jīng)濟(jì)性等。市政工程類的各項(xiàng)工作都集中在一個綜合的工程技術(shù)部門中：結(jié)構(gòu)設(shè)計(jì)；空調(diào)通風(fēng)系統(tǒng)；噪音控制；照明系統(tǒng)；機(jī)電工程；強(qiáng)電；弱電工程；消防人防工程 ；環(huán)境質(zhì)量監(jiān)控。

流線設(shè)計(jì)

為了協(xié)助業(yè)主、設(shè)計(jì)師和開發(fā)方確定對空間布局、新建建筑的尺度或場地開發(fā)的力度，AREP集團(tuán)專門開設(shè)了人行流線研究。這一職能為各個項(xiàng)目參與者提供了非常大的專業(yè)支持：從行人尺度到建筑尺度、到大規(guī)模土地、交通系統(tǒng)等，流線研究都可適用。

這一研究的應(yīng)用范圍是多重的，并涉及到每一種交通方式（公共或個體、非機(jī)動或機(jī)動……）；例如博物館、紀(jì)念性建筑、體育場館以及商業(yè)中心等公眾場所，人流管理非常重要，流線設(shè)計(jì)與研究便是不可或缺的。

? 客戶統(tǒng)計(jì)與問卷

? 行人流動報(bào)告與分析

? 制定通道與等候空間尺寸

? 綜合交通策劃

? 交通規(guī)劃藍(lán)圖

? 制定施工、開發(fā)中斷和大型活動期間人群管理策略

? 人流、車流建模 / 動態(tài)模擬

項(xiàng)目策劃

項(xiàng)目策劃與項(xiàng)目功能、空間布局設(shè)計(jì)休戚相關(guān)，其主要作用是根據(jù)用戶、開發(fā)商、投資人及決策者的需求或期望制定項(xiàng)目運(yùn)行計(jì)劃，明確設(shè)計(jì)要求與限制條件等。

項(xiàng)目策劃施用于項(xiàng)目的所有參與者，起始于項(xiàng)目前期工作階段和初期發(fā)展階段，并且一直延續(xù)到建設(shè)工程交付的最后階段。

項(xiàng)目協(xié)調(diào)，專業(yè)支持

項(xiàng)目協(xié)調(diào)工作貫穿整個項(xiàng)目進(jìn)程：項(xiàng)目策劃、研究討論、項(xiàng)目招標(biāo)、施工建設(shè)、工程驗(yàn)收……項(xiàng)目協(xié)調(diào)員需要確保項(xiàng)目正常運(yùn)做，符合工程造價(jià)、質(zhì)量、工期以及預(yù)估風(fēng)險(xiǎn)等標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。項(xiàng)目協(xié)調(diào)的職責(zé)還包括向建設(shè)單位提供全部或部分技術(shù)、行政和經(jīng)濟(jì)咨詢。

專家和顧問的任務(wù)就是幫助業(yè)主方開展專項(xiàng)內(nèi)容咨詢，例如殘疾人設(shè)計(jì)規(guī)范、服務(wù)政策拓展……

AREP Overview

Founded in 1997, AREP is a multidisciplinary practice. Based on Paris, AREP have 8 offices in the world (Beijing, Shanghai, Vietnam, Morocco, Dubai, Doha, India, Russia). AREP brings together 900 people and more than 30 nationalities, professionals from diverse disciplines: architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, economists, architectural programming consultants and construction operations managers. We offer our expertise in all areas of city planning and construction: complex urban sectors, multimodal hubs and railway stations, public amenities, offices, hotels and housing, shopping centers and technical facilities.

AREP is a wholly owned subsidiary of SNCF, the French national rail operator.

The company’s turnover for 2016 was €103M.

AREP is the 1st French agency classified in the World Architecture (WA) 100 for 2017, AREP ranks 32nd in the world among the top 100 architects of this year.

AREP – DESIGNER OF SPACES FOR CITIES ON THE MOVE

For the last 15 years AREP’s teams have been designing and building for the contemporary city, the nerve centre of mobility.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, our cities have been constantly transformed by the increasing mechanization of transport modes and expanding networks. But the progress that has driven this remarkable urban development has also fragmented the city and its usage. Today our communal public space has to be reinvented.

By combining several complementary disciplines in a spirit of openness and innovation, AREP applies a creative approach to space for the benefit of today’s city dwellers.

Designing and overseeing programmes at every scale, from entire metropolitan areas to individual buildings, AREP is a laboratory for ongoing research on the urban travelling environment.

AREP Method

USE AND CONTEXT

AREP’s approach to a project is guided by the site’s use and context. Attentive to its function, history and geography, and attuned to the local culture and heritage, AREP’s teams design spaces which meet both the priorities of the principals and the expectations of today’s society, in terms of lifestyles, sustainability, and site identity. Organized as a multidisciplinary design office, AREP encompasses all the technical expertise required - from town and regional planning to architecture, engineering and interior design - to execute programmes at every scale, from designing everyday objects to developing metropolitan areas. Its holistic approach is based on shared methods and values, applied in the research and study specific to each discipline. This across-the-board approach contributes towards honing skills and professional practice.

ITERATION

Based on observation of the existing environment and discussion with the various stakeholders, a transformation within the city is developed through successive interactions between AREP teams (engineers, architects, town planners, designers) and the contracting authorities (decision-makers, financiers, operators).

It is through this dialogue that projected uses are defined and the space is organized. The role played by AREP goes well beyond a response to a predefined programme. It contributes to the simultaneous emergence of a diagnosis, a programme and a project, and to shaping the role of the stakeholders and partners it works with.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The core values that AREP brings to its projects - appropriateness and durability -echo the key concerns of sustainable development.

? A sustainable approach is one which corresponds to today’s expectations and at the same time factors in those of future generations. While AREP meets many people’s everyday needs through its work on buildings and public spaces, the sites it develops are also designed to accommodate future changes in the way we live.

? A sustainable approach meets today’s needs without prejudicing tomorrow’s interests. By developing effective environmental solutions in its designs for cities and buildings, AREP promotes a responsible approach to the use of materials and energy.? A sustainable approach prolongs the history of a location and its inhabitants. For AREP, understanding the resonance of a site - in its spatial, temporal and cultural dimensions - and enhancing its existing fabric are prerequisites for any design project.? A sustainable approach ensures the city is - and remains - attractive and pleasant to live in. By prioritizing public spaces as vectors of coherence and cohesion, reconciling mobility and the urban environment, and linking open and built-up areas, AREP helps to change the use and the image of cities.

? A sustainable approach takes the city’s future ?metabolism? into account. By addressing climate, energy, water and waste issues at a project’s design stage, AREP looks after the city and its inhabitants.

AREP WORKS TO 7 PROJECT SCALES

Development of large metropolitan or regional areas has until now relied on territorial planning mainly based on a three-pronged approach: socio-economic, legal (town planning law), and technical (creation of major infrastructures). Devising a projectdriven method for such developments means calling on design teams to establish a spatial synthesis of available data (objective or subjective, quantifiable or sensitive), in order to give meaning and coherence to a multidisciplinary approach.

This new type of approach is gaining widespread acceptance in France and other countries. The link between mobility and urban development is central to it, and informs AREP’s work.

AREP applies this approach on seven different scales: large areas; towns and cities; districts; public spaces; complex urban sectors; buildings; interiors, furniture, fittings.

1. Large areas

On a scale encompassing large areas (provinces, d¨|partements, metropolitan areas), AREP assists the state, local authorities and other stakeholders in defining a regional development strategy based on evaluation of the existing situation and analysis of major environmental, economic and social changes.

AREP approaches the development of large areas in the firm belief that they constitute a project site in themselves, in the sense that only a concrete, spatialized projection of a possible future, developed through an interactive approach incorporating the contributions of everyone concerned, can provide them with a shared view, and guide subsequent collective action.

2. cities

On the city scale, we are confronted today with widely differing situations, ranging from the need to channel the rapid expansion of huge metropolises in emerging countries to the need to rebuild the city on itself in post-industrial developed countries. In each configuration, AREP proposes a contextual approach to the sustainable city, based on close observation of the existing fabric and the ways it is used.

Changes to a city must meet the needs of contemporary urban life, at the crossroads of a global culture that creates new types of behaviour and a local culture that generates specific expectations.

3. Districts

Designing a district consists in writing a new page in the history of a site, whether it is natural, rural, urban or post-industrial.

Applying its multidisciplinary approach to a project, AREP is heedful of governance issues and the role of each player, the interplay between mobile and fixed regulatingthe use of public space, an urban metabolism that respects the environment, and the as yet unrealized qualities of the site to be developed.

4. Public spaces

The city’s public spaces must be rethought, resized and enhanced to accommodate changes in the way we use them.

AREP draws on its expertise in flow control and intermodal hub design to create public spaces that cater for all requirements, from the rush-hour crowd to the individual, the mobile and the immobile and to organize the surrounding area for contemporary modes of transport in public spaces that must neverthess retain their pedestrian focus.

5. Complex urban sectors

The requirements of contemporary urban life - mobility, social activity, access to all the city’s services - call for a dense mix of functions around transport hubs to make them key focal points. From Greater Paris to Beijing or Turin, AREP invents these new areas of the city as nodes of interaction and bustling everyday life, sectors encompassing offices, services, housing, hotels, shops, and public or private amenities such as day nurseries, schools, and so on.

6. Buildings

6.1. INTERMODAL HUBS

The intermodal transport hub is a key feature of today’s city of mobility. An extremely busy public space, it is a focal point for services and, increasingly, a locus of social interaction. It often engenders a reconfiguration of the city, for which it is a major functional and symbolic landmark.

6.2. PUBLIC AMENITIES, SERVICES, SHOPS

Every major public amenity frequented by a large number of people (museums and cultural amenities, hospitals, sports facilities, shopping centres, etc.) must accommodate all users, whether local residents or visitors, through the attention paid to quality of use and the expression of a strong identity.

6.3. Housing and hotels

Rethinking the role of housing and hotel provision in the contemporary city means not only reorganizing people’s personal space, but also linking it to the city’s services and public spaces.

6.4. Business premises

Business premises must reflect new ways of working - taking into account the interaction of professional, cultural and personal spheres - and facilitate dialogue and encounters (planned or accidental) between company executives.

7. interiors, furniture, fittings

Design of interiors, furniture and fittings is an integral component of the overall concept for a new development or building. For AREP this work often concerns a public space linking exterior and interior, where the priorities are fluidity and safety. All functions are integrated, from conveniences and services to signage. Structural plans are combined with designs for finishings, fittings and furniture to respect the tight constraints of public spaces and simultaneously meet end-user requirements.

AREP SKILLS

ARCHITECTURE

The design of a project is based on a rigorous evaluation process covering the needs, evolving uses, and engineering requirements of the site.

That design process is supported by extensive experience in designing buildings with major functional constraints, particularly busy focal points within complex urban programmes such as intermodal transport hubs, amenities, and mixed programmes.

PANHARD工廠舊車間和辦公室重組（AREP設(shè)計(jì)集團(tuán)總部辦公室） Redevelopment of the Former Panhard Car Factory (Head Office of AREP Design Group)

AREP’s architecture teams have tackled a wide variety of programmes of this type. In all cases the number one priority has been to submit a project suited to the needs,lifestyles and quest for identity of contemporary society: programme planning; architectural studies; construction economics; SCMC (scheduling, construction management and coordination).

DESIGN

Furniture design skills initially developed for intermodal hubs and urban transport venues were subsequently extended to designing furniture for the city and public spaces. AREP’s town planners, architects, landscape architects, designers and engineers combine their skills to develop these venues as part of larger projects: interiors; interior furniture, street furniture; signage; train design.

TOWN PLANNING

Whether on a large, regional scale or the smaller scale of public spaces, the area in question is considered in terms of strategic scenarios and development potential. Studies extend from programme planning to definition of urban form and creation of public spaces, and include land development, funding, and operating methods.

AREP works closely with local authorities at the concept stage and schedules operations over time to ensure the area is organized sustainably. It focuses on improving mobility to promote pedestrian flow and green modes of transport: diagnoses, methods and approaches; sustainable development and programme planning; assistance to contracting owner (consulting, assessment, advice); environment and landscape; mobility and intermodality studies; urban project management, roads and services infrastructure.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

The teams of design engineers who share a project’s objectives and contribute to its development by combining their skills. Their constant priorities are technical optimization, sustainable development and economy of means. The various engineering spheres are brought together in a common pool of skills and technical resources: structural design; air quality; noise control; lighting; electromechanisms; high/low voltage; personal safety and fire safety; environmental quality.

FLOWS

A specific expertise was developed by AREP Group in the field of urban mobility to support the contracting authorities, designers and operators in the redevelopment of public spaces, design of new structures or site operation.

Our expertise applies not only to pedestrians but extends to buildings and even beyond, to larger areas and the transport networks that structure them.

Pedestrian flow analysis mainly concerns transportation (public or private, motorised or active etc.) but equally all spaces that concentrate considerable amounts of people which must be dealt with, such as museums, sports facilities and shopping centres.? Passenger counting and client surveys

? Assessment and analysis of pedestrian traffic

? Design of circulation and waiting areas

? Intermodality programming

? Transport planning

? Strategies of crowd management during works, service disruptions or important events

? Traffic and pedestrian analysis and modeling

BUILDING SCHEDULING

Present at every stage of a given project - scheduling, research, studies, launch of consultation projects, construction, and handover - project coordinators ensure compliance with cost, quality, and lead-time targets, and risk prevention. Their project management remit includes all or part of the technical, administrative, and financial support role for contracting owners.

Expertise and advisory services assist principals to carry out specific programmes, from universal access for people with reduced mobility to the deployment of a service policy, etc.

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