Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar 2015

THE SOIL OF THE CITIES: RESOURCE AND DESIGN

In the Framework of the Quinzaine de l’urbanisme, Geneva, 2015

According to the renown italian planner Bernardo Secchi (1934-2014) the future of the cities is largely related to the design of the soil (progetto del suolo), due to its fundamental qualities, notably continuity, connectivity and identity. Indeed, the birth of a city and, more generally, the construction of urban space begins in the soil. However, in front of the grave alterations of our planet in the Anthropocene era, the preservation of the soils is today a major stake. This and other questions were tackled during the Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar 2015 proposed by the Fondation Braillard Architectes and the Laboratoire d’urbanisme of the Federal polytechnic school of Lausanne (EPFL). The Seminar was organized on the occasion of the International year of the soils, in the framework of the Quinzaine de l’urbanisme de Genève. Participated: Panos MANTZIARAS, Paola VIGANO, Claire CHENU, Elena HAVLICEK, Pascal AMPHOUX, Halimatou MAMA AWAL, Adrián TORRES,  Nicolas TIXIER, Pierre PINON, David RIPOLL, David H. HANEY, Sophie GREENWAY, Germain MEULEMANS,  Tibo LABAT, Axel ZUTZ,  Sébastien MAROT, Marine DURAND, Laurent HODEBERT.

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