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La Rade
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STATUS
Concept
SIZE
1,000,000 +
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
The proposal understands La Rade as a complex juxtaposition of layers with varying temporality and scope. The strategy focuses in utilizing the forces of La Bise, the extreme North-East wind pattern on Lake Leman, to achieve a lively re-habitation and re-naturalization of La Rade. An evolving interplay of vegetated soft edge conditions and programmed acupunctural infrastructure reimagines Geneva’s historic anthropocentric rectilinear waterfront. As a result, habitat and occupational variance increase over time alongside professional activities. By fore fronting an interconnected transformative ecological and architectural system, Vis-à-Bise tells the long-term narrative of La Rade, thus promoting temporality and building a new understanding of this hybrid urban landscape.
The landscaped edge imagines a permanent solution able to support the ephemeral character of seasonal ecological and anthropogenic activities. It takes into consideration the prominent winds and water currents to combine diverse lakeshore renaturalization solutions along the waterfront to maintain excellent water quality and encourage the proliferation of beneficial local flora and fauna species.
The infrastructure that supports the public uses and lake-related programming here depicted is not a closed possibility, but one of the infinite reversible iterations that La Rade could hold in response to the city of Geneva’s changing needs. The proposal therefore does not impose a static set of solutions to a changing problem, but a dynamic system of strategies that consider the complex layering that the site presents.
From a mobility point of view, Vis-à-Bise proposes decreasing the number of traffic lanes around La Rade to two lanes, plus an extra center one for turning vehicles and for support in high traffic. This reduction of lanes is made possible by the introduction of a new tram line along the water edge which would connect Genève Nations with Port Noir. Additionally, cycling mobility is encouraged by the introduction of a continuous double-direction lane all around La Rade. Finally, the overall visual appearance of the site is refined by the removal of the large-scale neon signage from the top of the buildings on the waterfront, and the subtle upward lighting of the facades. This will considerably improve the nightscape of La Rade, and bring back the civic character of such a central space to the city of Geneva.
In summary, Vis-à-Bise considers the diversity of cohabitations present in La Rade – the natural and the artificial, the planned and the spontaneous, the ordered and the organic, the wind and the water, the private and the public… – in order to propose a fluctuating set of strategies that ensure the long-lasting harmonious resilience of all their agents.
Location: Geneve, Switzerland
Architecture: PRÁCTICA (Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral, José Ramon Sierra).
Landscape architecture: Aliza Sovani.
Project area: 120420 m2
Renders: Okapi and PRÁCTICA
Competition date: March 2017
The landscaped edge imagines a permanent solution able to support the ephemeral character of seasonal ecological and anthropogenic activities. It takes into consideration the prominent winds and water currents to combine diverse lakeshore renaturalization solutions along the waterfront to maintain excellent water quality and encourage the proliferation of beneficial local flora and fauna species.
The infrastructure that supports the public uses and lake-related programming here depicted is not a closed possibility, but one of the infinite reversible iterations that La Rade could hold in response to the city of Geneva’s changing needs. The proposal therefore does not impose a static set of solutions to a changing problem, but a dynamic system of strategies that consider the complex layering that the site presents.
From a mobility point of view, Vis-à-Bise proposes decreasing the number of traffic lanes around La Rade to two lanes, plus an extra center one for turning vehicles and for support in high traffic. This reduction of lanes is made possible by the introduction of a new tram line along the water edge which would connect Genève Nations with Port Noir. Additionally, cycling mobility is encouraged by the introduction of a continuous double-direction lane all around La Rade. Finally, the overall visual appearance of the site is refined by the removal of the large-scale neon signage from the top of the buildings on the waterfront, and the subtle upward lighting of the facades. This will considerably improve the nightscape of La Rade, and bring back the civic character of such a central space to the city of Geneva.
In summary, Vis-à-Bise considers the diversity of cohabitations present in La Rade – the natural and the artificial, the planned and the spontaneous, the ordered and the organic, the wind and the water, the private and the public… – in order to propose a fluctuating set of strategies that ensure the long-lasting harmonious resilience of all their agents.
Location: Geneve, Switzerland
Architecture: PRÁCTICA (Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral, José Ramon Sierra).
Landscape architecture: Aliza Sovani.
Project area: 120420 m2
Renders: Okapi and PRÁCTICA
Competition date: March 2017
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