La ville intermédiaire

Team Point of View

The densification of detached houses neighbourhood in the Geneva metropolitan area is a possible way to reduce the cruel shortage of housing. The neighbourhood of Onex, Confignon and Bernex has the human, territorial and urban potential of its own mutation into a new city model that enjoys the benefits of urban and qualities of rural: This is the intermediary city.

Jury Point of View

The project proposes the implementation of a legal-organisational interface that is neither public nor private but takes the form of a collective charter. The content takes the particular needs of stakeholders into account so that dialogue becomes possible. The charter is accompanied by a series of tools that allow a specific response to situations of conflict that may arise. These tools also propose a series of planning strategies that address the densification needs of a particular territory, these strategies integrating the notions of upgradeability and adaptation over time.