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Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 11/2019

Neugestaltung der Plätze Louis Pradel und Tolozan in Lyon (FR)

Gewinner

Atelier Jacqueline Osty & associés

Architektur

Ingerop

Bauingenieurwesen

les éclaireurs / the enlighters

Lichtplanung

Diluvial bureau d'études fontainerie

Bauingenieurwesen

Lionel Orsi | ORSI architectes

Architektur

Erläuterungstext

Vertugadin: grass glaze as an amphitheater. A traditional form in the vocabulary of French gardens, here a new form in the traditional fabric of a city. The reciprocal influences of urban and landscaped routes are very old but did not go as far as the need to think, to draw public space as elements of a landscape. Today is the time for the necessary compromise between the mineral logic of the urban and the need for nature in the city. Vocabularies intersect and new forms appear, especially since respect for the singularities of a context has become established in the minds of residents and developers. A place designed in the 1970s no longer corresponds to this situation, not only because time has done its work, but because its role in the city has become much more complex.
Place Louis-Pradel is a place heckled by many functions installed in a brutal manner, although legitimate in its time. An intense life has crept into it in many ways, through work and leisure, play or passage. The legacy consists of an addition of architectural uses and forms, and of an unfinished inscription in the network of squares and axes of the Presqu’ile. The whole offers a place of exceptional centrality and a real heritage, despite very strong constraints due to a topography which adds the effects of successive layouts of roads and parking lots.
We can consider this topography as the centerpiece of the site, the heritage element from which to define the project: develop a public space that is not only a system of distribution of uses, but a scene that is both urban and landscaped, a scene for plainenear and far architectures, geographic scene of the Croix-Rousse slopes and the Presqu'île plain, living scene of walkers, skaters, waterfalls and pools ... The project thus protects the framing on the remarkable views, from the bridge to the Opera and the Town Hall, from the corner of the Place de la Comédie to the slopes of the Croix-Rousse and from the square itself towards the Rhône.
Framing, thanks to the arrangement and choice of trees so as not to obscure the views, thanks to a cantilevered balcony on the river and thanks to this “urban vertugadin” which is like an amphitheater of greenery coming down from the Croix-Rousse: a coat of lawns thrown over the infrastructure. These are the main lines of the project, which articulate various dominant spaces, mineral towards the town hall, vegetal towards the quays, covered with trees on the north side of the square, with more open sky on the south side; playful and restless towards the shore, more calmly animated towards the city.
The Louis-Pradel / Tolozan squares ensemble, thus redesigned, fits in the suite of squares on the Presqu’île a singular form which completes the collection of very diverse atmospheres of public spaces in downtown Lyon.