BIOME - Imagining a new nature in the city for the Great East , Metz / Frankreich

BIOME - Imagining a new nature in the city for the Great East

The DREAL Grand-Est with the support of the DGALN invites you to participate in the first edition of the Biome competition. This idea competition is open to students in schools of architecture, urban planning, landscaping and engineering.

What is a biome?
A biome (from the Greek bios, bio = life), also called macro-ecosystem, ecozone or ecoregion, designates a set of ecosystems characteristic of a biogeographical area and named on the basis of the vegetation and animal species that predominate and are adapted to it.

Problem of the contest:
While Covid 19 seems to have a lasting effect on our society and our ways of living together, the Biome competition invites you to imagine in a city of the Grand-Est region an architectural, urban or landscape project capable of bringing together city and nature. Faced with the global problems linked to global warming, the disappearance of biodiversity, urban sprawl and soil sealing, how can we imagine resilient urban complexes?

The Biome competition offers you the opportunity to bring utopia and reality into dialogue with the aim of rewarding innovative ideas capable of reconciling the city with nature.

Examples of issues:
How to reduce the effects of heat islands in urban areas?
How can the hearts of cities and the hearts of heat islands be renatured?
What place for biodiversity in urban spaces?
What solutions to fight against soil sealing in urban areas?
Which urban planning can be imagined to create a dialogue between nature and human activity?

More information and details at
drealgrandest.wiin-organizers.com/fr/competitions/5f5262fdc69a6a06d9d3c98c