Projects

• Date of building the gunpowder magazine : 1682
• Net floor area gunpowder magazine: 100 m²
• Project duration: 18 months (after obtaining building permission)
• Date commissioned: May2014

Context, memory and creation
Created in 2009 in the aim of mutual enrichment of teaching and practice, the partnership between the Vauban Network and the National Higher School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB) has given the major Vauban sites the chance to benefit from innovative ideas...

• Owner (since 2010) and contracting authority: Arras Urban Community
• Number of inhabitants: 105,000 (INSEE census 2011)
• Area of the citadel: 30 ha
• Useable surface area: 45,000 m²
• Number of 17th century buildings: 15
• Reconversion master plan project management: Philippe Prost Architectural...

The Citadel of Arras was transferred to the Arras Urban Community (CUA) in June 2010.

The Citadel was open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays only between 2 April and 16 October  2011 with access to a limited area around the parade ground.

However, the Citadel has been open to the public daily...

• Construction period: 1877 - 1880
• Municipality: Werkendam
• Ownership status (since 2007): Brabants landschap
• Guest house opened in 2012
• Sleeps: 30 people
• Annual consumption: 450 m3 (10 deliveries) i.e 9 000€ (heating and hot water)
• Output: 65 Kw

• Construction period: 1876-1880
• Surface area: 3,5 ha
• Legal status: association
• Ownership status: Staatsbosheer
• Duration of rental contract: 30 ans
• Number of visitors in 2013: 35 000
• Opening hours: weekends and during school holidays from 10: 00 am to 5: 00 pm, on reservation for groups (corporate...

Surface area inside the fortified city: 15ha

Contracting authority: commune of Longwy

Implementation: 20 years

Number of inhabitants (INSEE 2011): 14,628

Contractor: Philippe Prost Architectural firm

Study carried out by 2009

• Construction period: 1815-1940
• Stretch of the line of defence: 85 km
• Width of the line of defence: 3 à 5 km
• Number of communes: 24
• Number of fortified towns: 5
• Number of forts and other structures: 60
• Number of redeveloped forts: 40

• Non fort profit organisation created in 2012
• Number of participants: 100, including entrepreneurs, local authorities and services providers
• Number of employees: 2

Implementation: 

• 1990-1993: Helsinki open prison, Suomenlinna division
• 2005-2007:  Helsinki open prison, Suomenlinna division for foundations, private entrepreneur (metallic structure and fabric cutting)

Annual maintenance
mounting - dismantling of fabric using a crane (cost of 10,000 € per...