Geneve Ville/Nature

In 2022, the City of Geneva began the process of revising its main development strategy, adopted in 2009, to place the ecological transition and the need to reduce the municipality’s carbon footprint at the heart of its concerns. The paradigm shifts that have characterized the last decade made this revision an opportunity to radically transform urban planning strategies and the ways in which such strategic frameworks are formulated.

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Geneva Civitas, Map of Geneva and its surroundings, Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest, orientation Northeast, Geneva, circa 1730, Scale approx. 1:15 000
© 2021 | Bibliothèque de Genève | Centre d’iconographie | CIG | Public Domain Mark

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Mayer’s Cantonal Atlas, Communal Sheet No. 02 Plainpalais, Geneva, 1828, Scale: 1:15 000
© 2021 | Bibliothèque de Genève | Centre d’iconographie | CIG | Public Domain Mark

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Dufour Map 1842, Topographic Map of the Canton of Geneva surveyed by order of the government in the years 1837 and 1838, Geneva, 1842, Scale approx. 1:25 000
© 2021 | Bibliothèque de Genève | Centre d’iconographie | CIG | Public Domain Mark

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Plan of Geneva, its suburbs, and Carouge, Jean Rodolphe Mayer, Geneva, 1878, Scale: 1:3000
© 2021 | Bibliothèque de Genève | Centre d’iconographie | CIG | Public Domain Mark

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Canton of Geneva, Topography, Arnold Hoechel, Geneva, 1930, Scale: 1:12 500
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1936 - Braillard-Bodmer: Plan of the Zones of the Canton of Geneva, Maurice Braillard, Albert Bodmer, Geneva, 1936
© 2003 | Université de Genève | Centre de Recherche sur la Rénovation urbaine (CRR) | Institut d’architecture de l’Université de Genève (IAUC)

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1948 - Green Zones and Connections. Geneva Current and Future Agglomeration, Albert Bodmer, Geneva, 1948
© 2021 | Département des Travaux Publics Genève (DTP)

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Historical Approach to the Urban Fabric of Plainpalais: Interpretation of Contemporary Morphology: Premises for a Project Proposal, Juan Pedro Urruzola, Geneva, 1985
© 1985 | Ecole d’architecture de Genève | Centre de Recherche sur la Rénovation urbaine (CRR) | Institut d’architecture de l’Université de Genève (IAUC)

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Aerial view of the Arve river, Sheet 52-53-60-61, Geneva, 1933
© 2021 | Université de Genève | Centre de Recherche sur la Rénovation urbaine (CRR) | Institut d’architecture de l’Université de Genève (IAUC)

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The Plain of the Arve, Topographical Model, Geneva, 1930
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Le Bout-du-Monde, Geneva, 1964
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Werner Friedli | CC BY-SA 4.0

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La Jonction, Geneva, May 1909
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La Jonction, Geneva, May 1925
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Walter Mittelholzer | Public Domain Mark

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Les Vernets, Naef & Cie, fragrance manufacturer (today Firmenich ), Geneva, 1918-1937
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Walter Mittelholzer | Public Domain Mark

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Les Vernets, Naef & Cie, fragrance manufacturer (today Firmenich ), view to the west (W), Geneva, April 1926
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Walter Mittelholzer | Public Domain Mark

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La Jonction, Usines Gardy SA, Electrical Parts, Geneva, 1918-1937
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Walter Mittelholzer | Public Domain Mark

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On the banks of the Arve River opposite Champel, in the background, the tower of Champel, Geneva, approximately 1910
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Unknown | Public Domain Mark

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Service voirie ville des Genève VVP, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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Centre sportif des Vernets, riverbanks, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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Centre sportif des Vernets, riverbanks, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
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Centre sportif des Vernets, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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Nouvel Hôtel de Police (NHP), Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, February 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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© 2022 | Département des Travaux Publics Genève (DTP)

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Le Bout-du-monde, City-Nature Relationship, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, 2022
© 2022 | SITG data | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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Le Bout-du-monde, City-Nature Relationship, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, 2022
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La Jonction, TPG halls, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
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Le Bout-du-Monde, Champel, City-Nature Relationship, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
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Centre sportif du Bout-du-Monde, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, March 2022
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On the banks of the Arve River, Geneva, October 1902
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Unknown | Public Domain Mark

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Arve river downstream, loop at the end of the world [Bout-du-Monde] above Carouge, Geneva, April 1948
© 2022 | ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv | Photographer: Unknown | Public Domain Mark

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Vernets, City-Nature Relationship, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative

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Pont-Rouge, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, February 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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Jonction pedestal bridge, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, February 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

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Jonction covered market, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, February 2022
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Arve banks, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, April 2022
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Arve basin as a ground, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, May 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

Arve basin and multimodal mobility, Revision of the Municipal Master Plan City of Geneva, Planning Test Study, Architecture Land Initiative, Geneva, May 2022
© 2022 | Architecture Land Initiative | Geneva

Context

This is why the City of Geneva launched an initial prospective planning study, in order to open up the questions and reframe the issues at stake before embarking on the construction of a new communal master planning concept. Architecture Land Initiative was one of four teams selected to open up new avenues of work. More specifically, the team’s focus was on the future relationship between city and nature : How can we overcome the antithesis between the production of the city and the production of new nature, and imagine a project for new coexistence and adaptation to climate change? How can we use the transformation of the city to address these issues? How can we take advantage of the reuse/recycling/densification of the city to enhance biodiversity and adapt the city to climate change? What are the risks associated with climate change in Geneva, and how can we respond?

Project

In this research, the Arve River becomes the structuring element in the reorientation of the relationship between city and nature. The territorial condition it has shaped over the centuries, with its plateaus, meanders, affluents and ecosystems, constitutes the primary substance for rethinking these relationships. The Arve River as a living organism offers numerous opportunities for assembling built/non-built forms, human/non-human dynamics, and all the forms of life that make up the city. By inverting our understanding of the river’s presence in the city, not as an addition but as an antecedent and fundamental element, the city’s articulations are revisited in terms of the cohabitation of the living. The boundaries that persistently organize our lifestyles and structure our spaces into mono-functional zones are questioned through three spatializations along the Arve: at La Jonction, Les Vernets and Le Bout-du-Monde. In all three cases, the planned renovation of major sports and logistics infrastructures becomes a lever for transforming spatialities and relationships with the non-human.

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Period:
2022

Architecture Land Initiative:
Dieter Dietz, Aurélie Dupuis, Léonore Nemec (lead), Zoé Lefèvre, Alexa den Hartog

External experts:
Géraldine Pflieger (Geneva University), Camille Frechou (EPFL), Adam Szymczyk (independant curator), Claude Fischer (HEPIA)