In a context questioning urban sprawl, urban brownfield constitutes an interesting potential of surfaces to be reclaimed. Their regeneration allows for simultaneously envisage densification within the already-built fabric and revitalization of certain portions of cities and metropolitan areas. However, with a view to sustainability, the question is not limited to the issues of the location and the densification of buildings. This return to the city implies the optimized awareness of environmental, socio-cultural, and economic aspects, which also raises many qualitative questions for the architectural project.
For this 2013-2014 academic year, the URBAN REGENERATION workshop is once again looking at the future of a portion of the city of Yverdon-les-Bains, particularly emblematic of the issues linked to the regeneration of urban brownfields. Home to many abandoned areas, this site is ideally located between the railways and the shores of Lake Neuchâtel, in the geographic center of the agglomeration. It thus takes on a particularly strategic character because it can respond to the significant demographic growth expected in the Yverdonnoise agglomeration. Indeed, its transformation into a new dense urban sector is likely to accommodate more than 3,000 inhabitants and 1,500 jobs in the area of influence of a national level railway station, benefiting from the lake landscape as a backdrop. To continue the exploration of this challenge, the studio focuses on various hypotheses relating to the way to define the built space, typical of the city, and the non-built space, typical of the parc and its shores.
Team
Professor : Prof. Emmanuel Rey
Teaching assistants : Jean Camuzet, Didier Collin,, Nicolas Strambini
Lecturer : Dan Bolomey
Experts : Antonio Gallina (Neuchâtel), Nicolas Favet (Paris)
Visiting lecturers
Pierre Bonnet, architect, atelier bonnet, Geneva
Thomas Bourdaud, cultural mediator, Hangar 32, Nantes
Christian Dautel, architect, director of ENSA Nantes
Yves Dreier, architect, Dreier Frenzel, Lausanne
Philippe Gasser, transportation engineer, urban planner, Citec, Geneva
Romain Kilchherr, engineer in environmental sciences, EDMS, Geneva
Maxime Monnier, landscape architect, MAP, Lausanne
Vincent Morandeau, land planning project manager, Nantes Métropole
Patrick Moreuil, architect, Tetrarc, Nantes
Florian Riffet, cultural mediator, Cité radieuse, Rezé
Students
Elif Adiguzel, Stéphanie Amstutz, Candice Baldy, Laurie Bandiera, Michaël Beaud, Baptiste Berrut-Maréchaud, Cilette Bouche, Nicolas Choquard, Marc Evéquoz, Matthias Ferrari, Tobias Gagliardi, Damien Gisler, Federica Grande, André Gruaz, Matthieu Hoffmeyer, Anaïs Jaquier, Sebastian Kannewischer, Célia Küpfer, Deniz Leblebici, Charles Legrand, Eliane Lehmann, Delphine Millet, Carine Morand, Catherine Nachbar, Jonathan Perret, Anna Pontais, Noémie Resbeut, Pedro Reyes, David Richner, Alois Rosenfeld, Noam Sadras, Olivier Schmitt, Parik Simsar, Olmo Viscardi, Alan Zen-Ruffinen.
Related publication
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URBAN RECOVERY Emmanuel Rey (Ed.) Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes Lausanne, 2015 |