The development of the project has, on the one hand, followed guidelines for the achievement of certain sustainability standards and social cohesion objectives, but, on the other hand, it has also dedicated great importance to the physical and territorial context in which it was going to be inserted, so as to be a real and own mending of the urban fabric of the city of Paris.

The project area is located in the 17^th arrondissement – one of the 20 metropolitan districts in which the city is organized since 1860 thanks to the urban planner George Haussmann – known as Batignolles-Monceau, that is on the right bank of the River Seine and is divided into 4 administrative districts: Ternes and Monceau in the southwestern part; the Batignolles district, in the middle; and the Épinettes district, in the northeastern part.

What is very interesting to know about the history of the Batignolles district is that it was an independent village outside Paris until 1860, when the emperor Napoleon III annexed it to the capital.

In the 19^th century it has become one of the most important centres of the capital’s cultural life as well as the base for the French impressionist painter Édouard Manet and his friends (amongst them Émile Zola, August Renoir and Edgar Degas) known as the “Groupe des Batignolles“.

The 54 hectars of land, where the current project of the Clichy-Batignolles district is located, belonged to the France’s first rail line and steadily fell into disuse during the 1970s.

At the beginning of the 20^th century was designed a project for the regeneration of the area and for its transformation into the athlete’s village for the 2012 Summer Olympics, which Paris was nominated to host. Nevertheless, the dossier failed to convince the Olympic Committee and the project didn’t proceed.