Landscape project in Unige, Geneva (Switzerland).
The site of the school of Architecture of the University of Geneva is a very natural place. Centurial trees and extensive grounds form the environment of the School. New constructions are surrounding this site, so new necessities are being created. An elementary school is being constructed in the site too, andthe fields are now used as a way down to the transport infrastructure of the city, and as a children's play garden.
The landscape project tries to adapt the site ti its new uses, maintening the natural essence of the place, and protecting the environment. A new pedestrian paths system communicates the different places of the site, and these paths become the new axis of the grounds. The first of them goes from the transport stop to the new residential constructions on the top of the hill. A small swimming pool, a little square and some greads appear during the way up. The second path communicate the first one with the new school, so the acces becomes clear and easy. The third one communicates the first two with a new square, that represents the nucleus of the site.
Water is present in all the new spaces, as the common material that unifies the whole intervention. The permeability of the materials is fondamental in the project, because one of the aims is to reuse the rain water.
This project pretends the creation of more and better adapted public spaces in a very natural site. That's why a politic of small intervention in the nature is very important. The use of non-contaminated materials and the search of a pollution-free environment is the key of the project.
