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Elevation: Paris is expanding by pushing the walls… upwards

2024-03-14T05:43:36.864Z

Highlights: The City intends to allow the construction of 500 additional housing units per year on the roofs of Paris. The political will to accelerate on this theme to respond, in part, to the housing crisis, is increasing. “I hope that from 2025, we will build vertically in all major cities in France,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said. ‘We have one or two calls from interested co-owners per day. At the end of February, we had already achieved our turnover for last year! » architect Didier Mignery.


While the City intends to allow the construction of 500 additional housing units per year on the roofs of Paris, the companies proposing this


“We have one or two calls from interested co-owners per day.

At the end of February, we had already achieved our turnover for last year!

» Architect Didier Mignery, who founded UpFactor in 2017 with the objective of “industrializing and facilitating” elevation projects, is rubbing his hands.

His start-up has become a reference in this field and will soon carry out a diagnosis for the City of Paris in conjunction with the Parisian Urban Planning Workshop (Apur).

In recent months, he has seen demand explode.

The political will to accelerate on this theme to respond, in part, to the housing crisis, is increasing.

During a site visit to Villejuif (Val-de-Marne) on February 14, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he wanted to facilitate construction, referring to “elevation”.

“I hope that from 2025, we will build vertically in all major cities in France,” he assured.

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Source: leparis

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