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PAVlimpsestes.
LECUYER Maxime.

PAVlimpsestes.

Folio
€72,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 29457
Format 25 x 29.7
Détails 608 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782889680931
By following the lead of André Corboz, this work extends the "reading of the territory as a palimpsest" undertaken in Invention of Carouge (1968) to the scale of the Geneva Praille-Acacias-Vernets urban project. This detailed cartographic approach, which reports the evolution of the Carouge and Geneva fabric through the PAV, allows for a better understanding of the metamorphosis of the site in order to use it as a planning tool. Printed on tracing paper, the hundreds of reproduced maps, superimposed in a fragmentation into distinct layers, translate the concept of reading a place "by layers". This reading in depth allows for the weaving of a relationship between the history of the site and a future intervention. More than the result of successive writings, or the testimony of a buried past, this in-depth exploration of the territory makes the historical trace a potential urban layout. It is through the interpretation of these elements that we reveal and bring to light components of the past, which then become components of the present.
By following the lead of André Corboz, this work extends the "reading of the territory as a palimpsest" undertaken in Invention of Carouge (1968) to the scale of the Geneva Praille-Acacias-Vernets urban project. This detailed cartographic approach, which reports the evolution of the Carouge and Geneva fabric through the PAV, allows for a better understanding of the metamorphosis of the site in order to use it as a planning tool. Printed on tracing paper, the hundreds of reproduced maps, superimposed in a fragmentation into distinct layers, translate the concept of reading a place "by layers". This reading in depth allows for the weaving of a relationship between the history of the site and a future intervention. More than the result of successive writings, or the testimony of a buried past, this in-depth exploration of the territory makes the historical trace a potential urban layout. It is through the interpretation of these elements that we reveal and bring to light components of the past, which then become components of the present.