Redefine a town centre as part of a participatory approach following a federal appeal filed in Pully (Vaud) by the inhabitants. Six participatory workshops conducted between 2015 and 2017 address the main public areas of the city to be re-qualified: A railway station square, a main street crossing the centre of the village, a square on slab above a car park or a square outside the centre near a main traffic road.
The study mandate proposes a series of mock-up design workshops to residents and shopkeepers in the municipality of Pully. Specific mock-ups are developed for these workshops. In collaboration with Anne Sophie Perrot, they are made in white, without a level curve, and with lines cut by blade to represent the roads, sidewalks and other infrastructure of the street. These mock-ups are at the cross-section of the plane and volume. The abstraction provided by the use of white and the discrete representation of the infrastructures of the street gives a space showing all possibilities between the facades of the building. It allows residents to freely use their imaginations without being focused on the technique. With freedom of thought and speech, this gives rise to forthright proposals that provide input to the discussions.
In addition, the workshops went to meet secondary school pupils in Pully, as part of their geography and French classes during three workshops (18.05.16, 1.06.16 and 9.11.16). Finally, the town’s urban and landscape services managers and elected officials, who wanted to remain neutral in the effort to allow the inhabitants to express themselves to the best of their ability, only attended the presentation of the results of the workshops, without intervening during the process.
Project partner(s)
Project leader - team
Natacha Guillaumont
(HEPIA),
Romain Legros
(HEPIA),
Amalia Miranda
(HEPIA),
Thibault Gazel
,
Sonia Rosello
,
Anne Sophie Perrot