Gold Line
Competition team
Marc de Tassigny (CH) Architect
Leonhard Kanapin (CH) Architect
Kim Pittier (CH) Architect
Stefania Malangone (CH) Architect
Félix Brüssow (DE) Landscape engineer
Nicolas Waechter (FR) Urban planner
Oriane Martin (CH) Geographer
Europan 16 Carouge (CH)
winner
2021
Team point of view
"Gold line" offers the opportunity to live and experience the Fontenette district and banks of the Arve in a new way. Giving greater space to the waters of the Arve and its riparian zone, this project requalifies and enhances the sector thanks to the surrounding nature, while reconnecting the different districts within. The sector will host new activities, leisure, relaxation, meeting and walking areas, as well as a new hub for artisanry and craftsmanship. Through these transformations, Fontenette will become a space linking humans to nature: a new ecosystem generating novel uses and encounters, allowing this sector of Carouge to live through its metabolic and inclusive vitality.
Jury Point of View
The jury liked this proposal in which the authors subtly attribute precise identities to the different components of the place, open-up the various sectors through active travel modes, while at the same time enhancing the landscape quality of the site. Drawing on a careful observation of the site, the project’s authors identify and name several themed places. These names are used to assign a specific and precise development intention to the different places.
