Cultivating Synergies
Competition team
Steve Hardy (FR) Architect
Lili Szabo (FR) Architect
Dimitri Szabo (FR) Agronomic Engineer
Europan 16 Carouge (CH)
runner-up
2021
Team point of view
This urbanized area of Carouge is a patchwork of water, loose constructions, forest, and sports facilities. It has at the same time a picturesque potential and some structural issues for the quality of its urban life and biodiversity. The project proposes to reinforce the different axes and strengths of the area, giving them continuity and putting them in resonance to generate new spaces, qualities and opportunities. The reading and proposed actions are set on a wider and smaller scale to have a fine intervention level, but generating at the same time the coherence that the site lacks nowadays. This proposal is a first framework for an open discussion and conception process to cultivate new synergies in Carouge-Fontenette.
Jury Point of View
The jury appreciated the in-depth analysis of the site, with its very attentive and “benevolent” focus. The development of the place by means of localised and sensitive measures, and an economy of resources, respects the different identities and their constraints, highlights their strengths and points the way towards the coexistence of the place’s different uses and atmospheres. The project divides the site into three different layers and reinforce them, creating urban, social and environmental synergies between them.
