Parc du Sausset and the art of patience
At the time of parc du Sausset's planning in 1979 the trend in France was still to create highly designed parks using exotics and built features. The competition brief for parc du Sausset was different in that it broke with tradition and specified conservation. Michel and Claire Corajoud took up the challenge, and proposed a naturalistic planting scheme that would be as much of a buffer to the growing industry and expanding communities, as it would echo the shapes of its industrial iconography and reflect an agrarian past. Together with Jacques Coulon and a team consisting of Marc Rumelhart, Tristan Pauly, Claude Guinaudeau, Edith Gerard, Pierre Pascal Mourgue and Gerard Dufrense they took to creating a park that would challenge the instant garden mentality of the time. They planted whips instead of more mature trees, and proposed a marsh that would act as a refuge for wildlife, and treat the water infiltrating from the north through pytoremediation.
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Firm: Michel Corajoud
Today parc du Sausset with its meadow, marsh, boscage and coppice wood is a vital part of the community, and its marsh is host to over 70 species of plants, while 116 species of birds are known to frequent the park making it a popular spot for bird watchers. Parc du Sausset is now 25 years old, and a testament to the idea that time is sometimes the best ingredient to success. Parc du Sausset is situated on 200 hectares in the suburbs of Aulnay sous-Bois and Villepinte northeast of Paris and south of Charles de Gaul airport.
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