The Chamberonne was once a winding river.
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EAUtopia is a new chapter in the history of the place where the Chamberonne meets Lake Geneva.
We only seem to recognize the value of water when it becomes scarce in times of drought and with the changing seasons.
Water, giver of life, water, my friend, how has it come to this?
How much do we really know about our daily water consumption and how this water is treated?
Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Morges (CEPM)
Setting up a tobacco plantation on the parking lot at the entrance to Parc Louis Bourget is a transgressive act of occupation intended to make us sit up and take notice.
Service des parcs et domaines (SPADOM)
A clear, distinct ridge appears on the shore—a line guiding the viewer’s eye from the land to the water
Shallow waters are some of the most important habitats on Earth, hosting biodiversity-rich ecosystems at the point where the water meets the land.
Pierrot—a homophone of the French words “pierre” (rock) and “eau” (water)—evokes two characteristic features of the shore of Lake Geneva.
ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne
Like the man-made reed islands of Lake Titicaca, Totora is an archipelago of three temporary islets for bathers.
Mirador is a giant watery playground on the shore of Lake Geneva.
Pipes, bicycles, a pump and a lake: that’s all it takes to create a brand-new game!
Created for Expo 64, this garden has since been used to teach children about road safety.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Rainwater, streams and rivers flow through the Lausanne watershed under the effect of gravity, like blood coursing through a body, until they reach their ultimate destination: Lake Geneva.
The Flon is an underground, canalized river that flows directly beneath the Maladière traffic circle in Lausanne.
Au-dessus du gazon, le brouillard is situated in the former Flon valley, now drained and dried out.
Today, the Flon empties into Lake Geneva beneath the fields to the west of the Vidy Pyramids.
Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST) Rapperswil
Located at the spot where the Flon once emptied into Lake Geneva, Surface aims to give a second life to this larger-than-life site, a vestige of Expo 64.
A new playground takes shape in the well-maintained grounds around the Vidy Pyramids.
Sixty years ago, the spot where people now relax by the lake at Vidy was under water.
Natures contre-cultures is a collaborative research garden exploring themes of landscape, the body, ecology, sensuality, community and emotion through the lens of queer eco(myth)ology.
Giá Thể are Vietnamese compositions in which dry pieces of wood or stones support independent landscapes of plants and flowers.
In this garden, the plant world, so intimately connected to the land, meets the waters of the lake.
“What if the boundaries between infrastructure and leisure are blurred? What if we turned watering for cultivation into an event?”
Buried pipes and drains occupy the ground beneath our feet unnoticed. But here, they emerge above the surface.
Bachelor Architecture du paysage (HEPIA) Genève
L’heure du Grèbe is both a step out onto the lake and a step back in time.
La ville est leur terrain de jeux, d’épanouissement, de rencontres et d’apprentissage.
A burst of color takes shape on the earth embankments in this ambiguous area of Quai du Vent-Blanc.
Mél-usine au jardin promotes environmentally-friendly urban and industrial practices.
The Lake Geneva becomes a scenic space with the Archipelago installation, a wide horizontal surface onto which imaginary worlds are projected.
“The garden is the smallest parcel of the world and then it is the totality of the world.”
Jardin d’Eole, located at the end of Quai du Vent-Blanc, seeks to reveal the winds and breezes generated by Lake Geneva in all their diversity.
Landscapes are not static.
Forest Project is an inorganic, fantastical, movable forest growing in the parking lot of the Bellerive-Plage swimming pool.
It’s hard to imagine that, a century ago, Ouchy was not a place for strolling and sightseeing but rather a place of hard labor.
Its structure echoes that of the now-demolished building, albeit on a smaller scale and with contemporary styling.
“On your marks, get set, go!”
A tsunami of flowers washes over the southern end of Parc du Denantou, evoking the waters of the lake.
DELTΔ is part of this ecological commitment and proposes to “liberate” the mouth of the Vuachère.
The mouth of the Vuachère is a biodiversity-rich ecosystem and an important nesting ground for birds.
Une éponge pour la ville
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