Les Grands Voisins
París · Île-de-France · France
Reuse of vacancyCommons and belongingParticipatory urbanism2015-2020
Temporary occupation of a former 3.4-hectare Paris hospital between 2015 and 2020, run by the collectives Aurore, Plateau Urbain and Yes We Camp. It combined social housing, craft workshops, gardens and local shops, and became a European reference for transitional urbanism. The underlying tension: an experiment in shared living with a built-in expiry date, designed from the outset to give way to an ecodistrict with market housing.
- Led by
- The Aurore, Plateau Urbain and Yes We Camp collectives, by agreement with the public owner of the land (the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital)
- Status
- Historic
- Participation
- Co-governed
- Visitable
- No, it closed in 2020 and the plot is now an eco-district building site
- Website
- www.lesgrandsvoisins.org ↗
- Contact
- No public contact on record
- Last reviewed
- 10 September 2026
Verification
Verified
This place is verified through the first-hand knowledge of the atlas curator: a visit to the place or a relationship with the project, dated below. It is not a source you can check yourself, which is why it is declared this openly.
- Verified two sources including a primary one, or first-hand knowledge of the place
- Partial one source on record
- Unverified starting knowledge, sources pending
Sources
- Les Grands Voisins : l'urbanisme transitoire au cœur de Paris ↗ · secondary source · consulted on 1 September 2026
- La friche des Grands Voisins fait le bilan de 5 ans d'occupation légale ↗ · secondary source · consulted on 1 September 2026
- Visita al lugar y relación con el proyecto · first-hand knowledge · 4 September 2026