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