status:
International Architectural Design Competition, finalist
year:
2024-2025
place:
Geneva, Switzerland
client:
Department of Management, Construction and Mobility of the City of Genève (DACM)
with:
saas, atmos lab, Neven Kostic
description:
The project proposes a collection of landscape sequences that will define the outdoor spaces of the museum.
The idea is to extend the experience of the museum in the landscape, framing the landscape as an urban connector of this crucial part of the city.
The landscape sequences we envision don’t represent only a collection of ecologies and gathering spaces, but they are focused on the definition of microclimatic areas that lead the visitors on a discovery journey through the museum’s outdoor and indoor spaces.
These microclimatic areas are designed to preserve as much of the ecology of the site (trees and soil) as possible so that it can face and adapt to rising temperatures, improve the community’s health and well-being, and increase the city’s biodiversity.
The pocket urban oases have a twofold connection to the museum; from one side, they share a sense of domesticity related to circulation and accessibility and are punctuated by installations that spatially determine the possibility of gathering and navigating toward the site (small seating steps in the slope, balconies, seatings, etc.).
On the other they especially want to focus on the geological memory of the site, considering the topography itself and discovering from where emerges the thickness of the soil and the living matters that inhabit it, as well as the water system that its runoff management and the partial reuse of it for water features and irrigation.
From Rue Ferdinand Hodler to Promenade du Pin, we meet the following landscape interventions: the rocky plaza, the new Promenade of the conservatoire –defined by four main green areas: the cooling forest, the forest in transition, the grassland, and the butterflies’ meadows– the water plaza, the Rue Charles-Galland shared space, the botanical courtyard (interior courtyard), and the forest courtyard in front of the Burlamachi passage.
