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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467154103321

Titolo

Common grounds : Atelier Descombes Rampini 2000-2015 / / editor, Bruno Marchand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, [Switzerland] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Birkhäuser, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-0356-0615-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

712/.5094

Soggetti

Urban landscape architecture - Europe

Public spaces - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Marchand, Bruno -- Built projects (selection) -- Making a World / Marot, Sébastien -- The Urban Art of Possibility / Pattaroni, Luca -- Photographs 2015 / Goei, Laurent -- Embracing the Ordinary / Curnier, Sonia -- An Approach through Milieu / Maeder, Thierry -- Collection of projects (selection) -- Atelier Descombes Rampini -- Publications -- All projects -- Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Descombes Rampini's projects are prime examples of the skillful, spatial combination of architecture and landscape architecture. In texts, drawings, models, and photographs, this monograph presents more than 45 completed projects and unbuilt designs from the last fifteen years. The publication covers all scales, ranging from spatial planning and urban planning to individual engineering structures. For the Place Simon Goulart project, completed in 2013, large wooden lounging fixtures were installed to create an atmospheric city square where visitors can relax and linger in the heart of Geneva. Turbinenplatz - the largest city square in Zurich - is a surprising design that plays with the contrast between minimalist design and a light show at night. In the ongoing renaturalizing of the Aire Canal in Geneva, which began in 2001, the architects have gradually created a natural landscape and recreational space on a four-kilometer long, strip of landscape. Outside



of Switzerland, the architects are redesigning the banks of the Saône in Lyon, and are planning the new park, "Jardins d'Éole" in Paris. All of the projects demonstrate the design sensibility and the vast experience of Julien Descombes and Marco Rampini.