Staging Movement From Veveyse Territory to Urban Theatres
Ada Massarente
Movement is not enough considered in architectural design. Whether at the scale of a stage in the Theoretical Statement or at the scale of a river in the Master’s Project, this project counters the control of bodies as the only way of relating to movement, and therefore to life, in urban space; instead, it questions how to stage it. The project proposes to revitalise the Veveyse torrent by giving back to water the unbuilt spaces it used to flow through before industrialisation; this by redesigning the branches proper to its morphology, rebuilding the banks that once created different types of relations between the water and the city, and reopening its monneresses, two derivations that would again serve as urban promenades. The former Veveyse delta is designed as a park on an urban scale, capable of supporting different forms of life and connecting different urban tissues. Through a walk from vineyards to lake, the project reinvests the procession that was at the origin of the “Fête des Vignerons” and interprets the idea of Festspiel not only as an event that happens across generations, but as a way of animating everyday stages through movement. The succession of these stages rhythms the movement along the park and anticipates the steps on the place du Marché, which open onto the water stage and the mountain scene.
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Staging Movement