After the Confluence district where a two-story adobe building was delivered in 2020, the Part-Dieu also saw the raw land arriving on its territory. I have just launched the construction of a building of 4,500 square meters made of raw soil facings. An “obvious” project, according to Maud Caubet his architect. “It is a material that the ancients used because it was already there. It has the advantage of transforming and recycling endlessly. In Lyon, where we know that global warming is an issue, it also has the advantage of ensuring pleasant comfort for the island and for the occupants of the building, ”argues the Parisian architect who thought this real estate complex in collaboration with the Lyonnais architecture firm Supermixx.
For the past few weeks, the raw earth blocks prefabricated by Terrio have arrived from Saint-Priest, about twenty kilometers from Lyon, and have been assembled on a wooden frame facade, above a low carbon concrete base. “We do not have resources to agriculture because we use non-fertile land from the Lyon region and which is compacted to form the blocks,” describes Bastien Neufeind, co-founder of the start-up.