Urban complexes Geneva 19 The Priory. Banquet Castle.
Folio| N° d'inventaire | 26220 |
| Format | 22 x 31 |
| Détails | 36 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782889680788 |
Geneva is unique in Switzerland due to the high quality and diversity of its urban habitat. Since the 16th century, the city has faced various periods of rapid expansion and high population density; it has responded appropriately.
Today we're talking about the housing crisis, sustained development, and the lack of a growth area for the city's territory—all topics that have been topical in Geneva for nearly half a millennium. Like all urban architecture, examples from these different eras offer precise responses to constraints and, in the best cases, inventiveness in the face of limitations.
Providing precise documentation on clear examples enriches the debate on housing production while providing a depth of identity to the urban architecture of Geneva.
Anchored in this historical dimension, all the notebooks offer the singular view of a contemporary architect on the typological substance of an urban complex built at a time when the intensity of housing development in the city was high.
Built in the late 1950s, the Parc du Château Banquet residential complex is located at the entrance to Geneva, between Rue de Lausanne, Avenue de France and the parks bordering the lake, on a gently sloping site occupied by the old 17th-century castle surrounded by tall trees.
The built masses adapt to the topography of the natural ground while preserving the horizontal continuity of the facade lines while the layout of the stone slabs that cover them breaks with the monumentality of the three main volumes. Ranging from six to nine stories high, these volumes house more than a hundred apartments, from three to thirteen rooms organized into clearly identified zones: reception rooms and main bedrooms on the view side and minor rooms on the courtyard side.
Mastering the transition from large scale to that of construction details, Maurice Braillard will take up with this project some of the themes that will occupy him throughout his career: rethinking the urban square, building the city in the park and transferring the program of bourgeois housing into a modern formal and functional language.
Geneva is unique in Switzerland due to the high quality and diversity of its urban habitat. Since the 16th century, the city has faced various periods of rapid expansion and high population density; it has responded appropriately.
Today we're talking about the housing crisis, sustained development, and the lack of a growth area for the city's territory—all topics that have been topical in Geneva for nearly half a millennium. Like all urban architecture, examples from these different eras offer precise responses to constraints and, in the best cases, inventiveness in the face of limitations.
Providing precise documentation on clear examples enriches the debate on housing production while providing a depth of identity to the urban architecture of Geneva.
Anchored in this historical dimension, all the notebooks offer the singular view of a contemporary architect on the typological substance of an urban complex built at a time when the intensity of housing development in the city was high.
Built in the late 1950s, the Parc du Château Banquet residential complex is located at the entrance to Geneva, between Rue de Lausanne, Avenue de France and the parks bordering the lake, on a gently sloping site occupied by the old 17th-century castle surrounded by tall trees.
The built masses adapt to the topography of the natural ground while preserving the horizontal continuity of the facade lines while the layout of the stone slabs that cover them breaks with the monumentality of the three main volumes. Ranging from six to nine stories high, these volumes house more than a hundred apartments, from three to thirteen rooms organized into clearly identified zones: reception rooms and main bedrooms on the view side and minor rooms on the courtyard side.
Mastering the transition from large scale to that of construction details, Maurice Braillard will take up with this project some of the themes that will occupy him throughout his career: rethinking the urban square, building the city in the park and transferring the program of bourgeois housing into a modern formal and functional language.