Rillieux la Pape is located on the ridge between the Rhône and Saône rivers, giving it a privileged position.
More than just a suburb of Lyon, this municipality enjoys real autonomy from the larger metropolis. It offers a small town center, key public facilities, and a few large housing estates set against a backdrop of suburban homes opening onto a hillside park to the east.
Within this urban framework, Les Balcons de Sermanaz is the final piece that will forge the necessary link with the park’s landscape.
This extremely rich situation is unique. It is rare in the urban continuum to be able to speak of a boundary. The place where the city begins and where it ends has been definitively blurred in the improbable city entrances due to urban sprawl, where the countryside gives way first to commercial zones, then to industrial zones, leaving the surrounding landscape at a good distance from first dwellings.
Added to this strong intention is the desire to carry out a particularly virtuous project from an environmental point of view. The connection between the city and the park landscape means that we have to be particularly vigilant on the question of biodiversity, and therefore work with the flora and fauna already present to avoid disturbing the existing ecosystem.
All these reflections and the first studies we have carried out invite us to take our place in this great landscape and to take over the intentions set out by the site’s urban planners.
