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Noémie CORBEL & Daniel VEENSTRA
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T R A N S LO C AT I O N
CITY : NANTES PLACE : LA PETITE AMAZONIE (SMALL AMAZONIA) C A R AT E R I S T I C S : - Natural and protected space inside the city - accessible with Guided tours only - Artistic installation : «the wild toll» at the entrance
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IN CURITIBA CITY : CURITIBA PLACE : ZANINELLI WOODS C A R AT E R I S T I C S : - located in a rich district - a walk through the woods to the building and the lake is suggested
TOPICS COVERTED IN UNILIVRE : -
climatic changes urban mobility solid residues green areas water conservation
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CONCEPT PLAN IN NANTES
FIRST BRIDGE
SECOND BRIDGE
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SECONDARY ACCESS
WILD GATE
MAIN ACCESS
M A L A K OF F
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URBAN CONTEXT IN NANTES Equipments related to the train station Zone in densification Old suburb with contemporary housing projects Industrial zone High density housing (social housing) Medium density district
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T H E M AT I C C O N T E X T - The park is accessible only with a guide : The Nantes’s Unilivre is the all park with the 4 different elements that take place inside. - The local population could be involved in the unilivre project with the community center of malakoff which hosts many activites for the social housing district’s inhabitants.
T H E N AT U R A L S PA C E O F T H E P E T I T E A M A ZONIE : - 17 ha - 1st natural urban space classified as a natura 2000 area, it’s named humid zone of malakoff - 63 species of breeding birds - in 1944, bombing aimed to the train station end up in the marshy area of the petite amazonie, creating craters that turned i n t o p o n d . Tr e e s s u c h a s w i l l o w s p r o l i f e ra te a ro u n d i t a n d fo r m e d a n a t u ra l b a rr i e r. A natural urban space - 5 natural environments cohabit in the petite amzonie : puddle, ponds, alluvial forest, mown meadows, reedbed. - flora : species typically from the loire e d g e s ( a l d e r, e l m s , o a k s , w h i te a n d g ray willows, ash, oleander sauces, rushes
Left : a crater turned into pond Right : Loire edges’ vegetation
5 natural environment cohabits
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4 ELEMENTS FOR 1 UNIVERSITY
F I R S T E L E M E N T : T H E W I L D G AT E Created in 2012 by the collective Observatorium for the biennale exhibition Estuaire The paths are rustic with some fences made of wood
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4 ELEMENTS FOR 1 UNIVERSITY
SECOND ELEMENT : UNILIVRE The building takes place inside the Small Amazonia, it is made of local wood and offer a view on the all park.
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4 ELEMENTS FOR 1 UNIVERSITY
THIRD AND FORTH ELEMENTS : BRIDGES 2 bridges, made of the same wood of Unilivre, allows to cross the railways. They open the small Amazonia to the rest of the district, espacially to the social housing district Malakoff
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I L I T Y : E D U C AT I O N FO R E V E R Y
When we started this subject, it was quite clear that the translocation of a building from Brazil to Europe will force us to introduce a few changes to make it work. Finally, with this architecture work we chose for the study, we arrived to the opposit conclusion. With this piece the changes are not essential, in fact we can just translocate this same building with a very similar program and expect very similar results in a European country, in our case France. That has been the purpose of our work: find the most similar park in our home towns, the ones we know the best and then put the same building in this new place. We just adapted the trails to the park: this one is for the moment just accessible from the west side, with our project we create a new connection with the southern neighborhood. It is important for the activity of S O C I both: A L the C Ltwo A areas S S Ebecome S more integrated in the city and more frequented. In another way it is good for the park to stay a bit isolated so it doesn´t lose its character. About the activities: from the pictures and By being european green the rest of the information we found about the capital, nantes began many origina building, we learned that there is not so many actions to insert sustainahuman activity in it. We would set up similar activities bility in the city’s life. regarding sustainability like in Curitiba, but also other regular activities for young people and adults to atract In Unilivre, communication a more diverse public. In that way people who are not about the city’s actions, interested or worried about sustainable issues can such as recycling, could be come for other reasons and at the end get involved in add to some courses about one activity directly related to sustainability. About this sustainability main activities we think they sould be free, all of them, not like in curitiba where almost every course has a cost.
As long as a city decides to implant an installation like this, which at some point helps the city itself to preserve or reach a good sustainable conduct, it should cover the costs. B yB y b ebi enign g e ueruorpoepaena n g rgereene n c acpaipt ai tl a, l n, annatnetse sb ebgeagna nm m a nayn y The project is as important for the central a catci ot inosn st ot oi nisnesret r ts ussutsati anian-a construction (wiht the rooms) as for its ways around b ibl ii tl yi t yi ni nt hteh ec i ct yi t’ ys ’ sl i fl ei f. e . the park: the visit is a way to teach, to sensitize about environment. This work if the people want to go out omm I nI nU nUinl ii vl irver, e c, ocm u nuinc iactai ot ino n in some special natural place. This works more or less a baobuotu t t hteh e c i ct yi t’ ys ’ s a catci ot inosn, s , depending on the weather but also on the habits of s uscuhc ha sa sr erceyccyl ci nl ign, g c, ocuoludl db eb e the inhabitants. The weather must be more suitable om a dadd dt ot os osm e ec ocuorusresse sa baobuotu t in Curitiba but probably the habits of the population, s ussutsati anianbaibl ii tl yi t y according to our brazilian classmates, are more appropriate in France, in Europe in general. The final result is simply the same architecture with very similar paysagisic elements adapted to the shape of the new park. The small changes we added to our project in Nantes would also work in the original one and probably make it work better.