Landscape – Great Idea! X-LArch III - Department für Raum ...
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The issues are organized into families of landscape in<br />
relation to: nature, agriculture, development, mobility, and<br />
transversal issues having to do with sustainability. Together<br />
with the cantonal landscape lexicon and landscape<br />
atlas these families help to clarify the Canton’s challenges<br />
for the future of the urbanized rural landscape.<br />
Within each family, independent themes spark pseudonaïve<br />
questions that in turn lead to some schematic pilot<br />
projects or to further considerations. The questions serve<br />
as springboards to pilot projects.<br />
Fig. 3: An example of a referential landscape<br />
jargon as much as possible. The categories include rock,<br />
water, grasslands, trees, agriculture, human habitation<br />
and infrastructure. The typologies are based on the observation<br />
of aerial photographs and the ability for a non<br />
specialist to discern the type of landscape in question<br />
at a scale of 1:10’000, where each image represents 1<br />
square kilometer. The typology card contains an extracted<br />
aerial image, a doctored aerial image graphically<br />
highlighting its essence, a probable locator icon, and<br />
main characteristics of the typology relative to fauna and<br />
flora, water, constructions, infrastructure, and uses.<br />
Volume 3: <strong>Landscape</strong> and movement<br />
Volume 3 presents two different kinds of films by Nicolas<br />
Savary representing a dynamic perception of the landscape.<br />
It includes five short films covering the landscape<br />
as perceived from different modes of transportation, and<br />
a series of film panoramas taken from a rotating platform.<br />
Volume 4 : Issues and pilot projects<br />
Volume 4 assembles and articulates the major issues<br />
affecting the rural landscape, and proposes, not one allencompassing<br />
masterplan for the 3,000 square kilometer<br />
territory, but instead a more fragmented strategy, perhaps<br />
easier to implement, which includes a series of pilot<br />
projects each addressing more independent solutions for<br />
the most poignant issues. Natural dynamics play a major<br />
role, in particular, those of the forests and rivers. The<br />
strategy identifies urbanization and the fastest growing<br />
areas, probable next areas of development as population<br />
is expected to grow by 20% over the next 25 years,<br />
issues facing agriculture such as competitiveness on<br />
the global market, and mountain farming and its role in<br />
maintaining the landscape in the mountainous regions.<br />
What if the rural landscape remained open and diverse?<br />
Encourage transversal swaths across the plateau... Wide<br />
transversal swaths of agriculture landscape, either undeveloped<br />
or underdeveloped are juxtaposed against swaths<br />
of forested and urbanized landscape. What if the lake<br />
edge landscapes remained connected to their back-country?<br />
Maintain landscape swaths so as to frame urban development...<br />
Lake corridors are proposed as perpendicular<br />
open-spaces to the Canton’s two primary bodies of water.<br />
These 1/2 to 1 kilometer wide zones define farming and<br />
development and require a four part strategy including:<br />
protecting the primary landscape components, re-stitching<br />
the pedestrian connections, articulating the edges, and<br />
densifying development around the swath.<br />
What if we enhanced the strengths of our river corridors?<br />
Use riverways as structuring systems in the landscape to<br />
create local networks... In the case of the Promenthouse<br />
River small interventions strategically located according<br />
to the existing infrastructures are proposed so as to<br />
strengthen the connectivity of the riverway.<br />
What if two separate yet adjacent towns coordinated their<br />
growth? Qualify the meeting ground of their peripheries<br />
through landscape intervention and urbanization of diverse<br />
densities and create a green net to prevent the two<br />
agglomerations from becoming one... The growth of two<br />
towns, Orbe and Chavornay, only 1 kilometer apart was<br />
studied, proposing a staging of expansion as well as the<br />
preservation of agricultural land of differing types.<br />
What if a traditional village needed to grow? Create new<br />
Fig. 4: An example of a landscape typology