Approaches promoting targeted densification processes in order to limit urban sprawl are not limited to city centers. Territories located in the municipalities of the agglomeration also constitute strategic opportunities for the transformation of urban areas, especially those located near public transport and with densification potential. But if the question of density is a key quantitative issue, it should be considered as a necessary but not sufficient condition. From a sustainability perspective, the development of these sectors requires optimized consideration of environmental, socio-cultural, and economic aspects, which also raises many qualitative questions for the architectural project.
For this 2017-2018 academic year, the LIVING PERIPHERY Studio continues to explore the potential of the sector located at the end of the Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher (LEB) railway line. The direct proximity of Bercher station gives the sector some potential for densification, which must be revealed and defined through the search for creative solutions, adapted to the peri-urban character. Delimited by the railroad, an industrial zone, a village street, and a residential area, the site also constitutes a space reconciling landscapes. With this in mind, the Studio continues a reflection on spaces for economic activity and public spaces adapted to a peri-urban situation, this time retaining and juggling some of the existing buildings. At the programmatic level, the workshop intensifies its research on the specific notion of intermediate housing, whose characteristics are situated between those of the individual house and those of the collective building.
Team
Professor : Prof. Emmanuel Rey
Teaching assistants : Sara Formery, Martine Laprise, Pascal Michon
Lecturer : Dan Bolomey
Experts : Pierre Bonnet (Genève), Nicolas Favet (Paris)
Visiting lecturers
Nicolas Bassand, architect, lecturer, HEPIA, Geneva
Emmanuelle Bonnemaison, landscape architect, Lausanne
Pierre Bonnet, architect, atelier bonnet, Geneva
Andrés Canovas Alcazar, professor ETSAM, Madrid
Jeanne Della Casa, architect, L-Architectes, Lausanne
Werner Dürer, architect, MADRIDES, Madrid
Frédéric Frank, professor HEIA-FR, Fribourg
Students
Sadia Avdija, Mélanie Baptista de Sousa, Lisa Baseggio, Lara Baumgartner, Marilyn Brühlmann, Kilian Cossali, Pablo De Britto Tavares, Romain Dupertuis, Clara Demuynck, Brigitte Eichenberger, Alexandre Gameiro, Eliane Gigon, Charlotte Jianoux, Jonathan Kiener, Lorenzo Lamarche, Jérôme Lauper, Lino Mercolli, Judith Michellod, Louis Milhaud, Diana Nabky, Malak Nasreldin, Dimitri Nicole, Maylis Pillet, Antoine Prat, Chloé Prévot, Filippo Rattazzi, Aude Sahli, Abigaël Schaller, Chloé Schindler, Mathias Schopfer, Elodie Serrant, Alice Sikiaridis, Emmanuel Stump, Pierluigi Surano, Leonne-Zoë Vögelin.
Related publication
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LIVING PERIPHERY Emmanuel Rey (Ed.) Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes Lausanne, (forthcoming publication) |