The turn(it)around installation offers a reflection on various empty and built urban fronts and spaces that can be found in the city of Geneva, an international and cosmopolitan city in the heart of a conurbation of 800,000 people. A photographic portrait-statement, architectural, cinematographic, social, real and dreamed, concrete and utopian, observed and transformed, with an abundance of urbanity and completely new places.
From a photographic section of the built front of the main road that goes from the Cornavin train station sector to the Carrefour de l’Étoile, reflections, proposals, projects and videos show the actions that could help improve the lives of citizens. The raised built front, approximately 4 km long, is divided into 5 numbered zones and represented by a sequence of 5 cubes. Placed next to each other, they allow the visitor to walk virtually in one of Geneva’s most important urban thoroughfares. The other faces of the cubes present students’ work on built or empty fronts and a manifesto of intent that explains their reflections. The visitor can turn the cubes, all or only some of them, and build his/her own vision of Geneva 2030.
The projects of the facility and its website were designed by the students of the Summer Academy of the Architecture curriculum of HEPIA.
Client: Department of Planning, Housing and Energy (DALE) - organiser of the «Urban planning fortnight»
Sponsor: sihl-direct
Project partner(s)
Project leader - team
Paola Tosolini
(HEPIA)
