Tribehou at the heart of swamps

Creation of Educational and Research Center of the Organic Materials

Blue weft and green weft

An agricultural territory marked by a phenomenon of privatization which damaged the economy of the villages of the park of Cotentin and Bessin Blue weft and green weft define on a very meshed land parcel system

Tribehou in 1860

Farms developed in periphery of the village communicating directly with swamps. During the dry period swamps are dried up (spring and summer) and during the wet period they are flooded.

Tribehou in 2016

The agriculture almost disappeared. The structure changed in system of the village kick with a North / South major axis which serves some businesses and companies still in service, Tizain's construction in south and the dairy in the north.

A rich heritage

Landscapes of vast areas where the horizon is always present. Typologies of atypical farms and one material of construction emphasized today by the park, the earth.

unemployment++ and desertification++

How to restore an economic identity by emphasizing these heritage? How to emphasize the today forgotten swamps and how restore an economic independence on the scale of the Tribehou's village?

Revalue the crafts. Implementation of a new agriculture in swamps. Creation of a cooperative with the farmers of the corner, about ten at least, and other actors for the functioning of an economy in short circuit

Reeds, hemp and earth

Recreate a standing island. Creation of tree nurseries for the development of the wood industry. Reconnect both banks, center and edges of the island.

Setting-up of the project following the logic of the traversantes plots of land and the orientation of the infrastructure perpendicular in the major axis