LANDSCAPING PARIS/
PARIS AND ITS LANDSCAPE URBANISM
Paris and its suburbs represent a working population of 5.5 million people. More than 11 million inhabitants are distributed within 12,000 square kilometers, out of those, 2 million people live within 105 square kilometers.
Topographic conditions, cultural and social interaction, political problems and a constantly increasing unprivileged population limit the transformation of Paris into a 21st century major city, requiring urgent solutions.
The Landscape Urbanism Studio at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture aims to reformulate both -existing and proposed projects- the Parisian suburbia is engaged with, by trying to question them. The studio led by Jorge Ayala proposes systems of organization seeking to find methods and strategies in order to inform the development of this region.
The Paris Agenda starts proposing a series of actions capable of coordinating new modes of urban transformation by the reconfiguration of activities considered as “social or environmental threats”.
These physical models are the exploration of spatial configurations suggesting several levels of engagement with existing conditions: topography, rainfall flows, ground conditions and residual landscape, among others. These models have become a medium through which new urban logics appear and proliferate, becoming the structure of each of the students’ proposals.
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Jorge leads the Landscape Urbanism Seminar at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris/ Grand Paris Agenda – French Government Major Urban Project.
Label: Landscape Urbanism
Author: Jorge Ayala, Landscape Urbanism professor, Paris
Credits: ESA Landscape Urbanism 2010
Link: www.paysageurbanisme.com
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