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As a part of the Professional Licence Preservation and Valuation of Built Heritage from the Paris-Cergy University, we present our big final project. We gave us as a research subject the mills of Vexin and our goal is to propose selecting an edifice, a solution to preserve and show off this little heritage, usually left out. It has always been an important flour-milling activity in France which is unrecognized but shows a lot of testaments in our regions. In the department of Val d’Oise, there was a majority of paddle wheel mills known as hydraulic mills. It was usual that monks from an abbey built a mill to produce wheat flour and that’s the case of the former abbey Notre-Dame du Val located in the municipalities of Mériel and Villiers-Adam. It’s one of the older cistercian abbeys in Île de France and it mill exactly respects the criterias we seek for our study. It wasn’t restored and is actually in a state of ruin, giving us a big angle of reflection about its restoration. By its geographical context, it’s next to the “Parc Naturel Régional du Vexin” and it’s a witness of a former history because it was built in the thirteenth century. We created this document to present our reflections about the valuation of such an old mill and the restoration that we aim for it. In this objective, several aspects will be studied as an historical review of the abbey and its mill, a situational analysis before proposing a solution of valuation for this mill. |
