Projectual investigations aiming at the emergence of integrative strategies for river districts in transition.
In the context of the fight against the devastating effect on the surrounding landscape of urban sprawl, a convergence appears between the objectives of densification within the built environment and risk management for flood-prone areas. It opens an era of reconciliation between the river and the urban areas it passes through. Undervalued sites to date have proved particularly suitable for the creation of new sustainable neighborhoods, especially when they are connected to public transport networks and have significant potential in terms of urban regeneration. As a river dealing with significant changes linked to the management of its floods, the Rhône is particularly emblematic of the multiple challenges inherent in these processes of change.
The development of specific projectual approaches for this type of neighborhood in transition is at the heart of the “Rhodanie Urbaine” research project. To cope with the diversity of situations, the approach seeks to develop projectual visions on different study sites undergoing regeneration and showing evolution potential in terms of new city-river balances. Following the Rhône as a common thread, four study sites are selected at this stage, one for each hydraulic entity (excluding Lake Geneva and the Delta): a site in Sion located along the Rhône alpestre, a site in Geneva located along the Haut Rhône, a site in Givors (commune of Greater Lyon) located along the Rhône moyen, and a site in Avignon located along the Rhône inférieur.
Project Partners
Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST)
Research Team LAST
Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Dr. Martine Laprise, Dr. Sergi Aguacil, Dr. Judith Drouilles, Sara Formery, Clément Cattin, Pascal Michon
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Main Publications
The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland
S. Aguacil Moreno; S. Formery; M. Laprise; E. Rey
2024. 37th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2024 Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, June, 25-28, 2024. Une ressource sous pression
E. Rey
AS Architecture Suisse. 2023. num. 229, p. 3 – 4. Rhodanie urbaine – Journées Portes ouvertes de l’EPFL
E. Rey; M. Laprise; S. Formery
Journées Portes ouvertes de l’EPFL, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, April 29-30, 2023. Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone
S. Formery; M. Laprise; E. Rey
City and Environment Interactions. 2023. Vol. 17, p. 100093. DOI : 10.1016/j.cacint.2022.100093. Rhodanian Neighborhoods in Transition: Towards an Integrative Strategy Facilitating Decision-Making for New Sustainable Fluvio-Neighborhoods
S. Formery; M. Laprise; E. Rey
2022. 36th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2022 Conference,, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 23-25, 2022. Quartiers rhodaniens en transition
S. Formery; M. Laprise; E. Rey
2022. Forum des transitions urbaines 2021. Réinventer les rives urbaines?, Neuchâtel, Suisse, 3 septembre 2021. p. 13 – 15. Quartiers en transition. Les rives urbaines comme opportunité de projet
E. Rey
2021. Quartiers rhodaniens en transition: vers de nouveaux équilibres?
S. Formery
2021. Rhodanie urbaine
E. Rey; M. Laprise; S. Formery
Forum des transitions urbaines 2021, Microcity, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 3, 2021. Rhodanie urbaine, vers de nouveaux équilibres pour les quartiers fluviaux
E. Rey; S. Formery
Les Cahiers d’EspaceSuisse – Section romande. 2020. num. 1(2020), p. 24 – 29. Integrative decision-making strategy for fluvial neighborhoods in transition
S. Formery; M. Laprise; E. Rey
2020. BEYOND 2020 – World sustainable built environment online conference, Online conference, November 2-4, 2020. Synergies entre l’atelier de projet et la recherche doctorale. Vers des quartiers fluviaux durables.
S. Formery; M. Laprise; E. Rey
Séminaire de recherche sur l’atelier en urbanisme, Réseau PédagAU – Pédagogies de l’aménagement et de l’urbanisme, Sciences Po, Paris, France, May 9, 2019.