Concevoir et dessinner les infrastructures

contact details by
David Enon, architect and urban planner.
November

Objectives
In recent decades, transport issues have been considered more in terms of "mobility" than in terms of infrastructure. However, the physical presence of these paths, cycle tracks, streets, roads, freeways, railroads, canals, etc., remains a significant feature of the landscape, strongly influencing its structure and perception. Faced with the growing complexity of situations and issues, infrastructure can no longer be thought of as a pure product of technical and sectoral logics, but rather as architectural and landscape objects: the major public spaces of urban territories. In addition to new developments, it's just as much a question of improving, transforming or reconverting the major infrastructures already in place, inherited from modern times. However, these projects are only relevant if they are informed by the current challenges of sustainable mobility: multi-modality, car-sharing, traffic calming, "soft" or "active" modes, geolocation, and so on.

Content

• theoretical and methodological notions on infrastructures ;
• from infrastructure to ground architecture
• infrastructure architecture: a historical perspective;
• Henri Prost, infrastructures and the urban soil project
• Reasoning about urban mobility :
• infrastructure in cinema
• the logistics metropolis, designing with logistics in mind
• from traversed landscape to inhabited landscape: building the Pontet-Sud in Pessac
• transforming infrastructure in the Paris megalopolis: urban highways and mangroves
• the wall as a territorial paradigm

Target audience
Managers and employees of architectural, landscape or urban planning firms, technical service managers and technicians of local authorities, employees of public planning establishments, urban and territorial engineering specialists, sustainable development officers and project management employees.
Prerequisites
None required.

Program

Teaching methods
The course is given on the school's premises.

Training location
École d'architecture de la Ville & des Territoires
registered under n° 11770592677
(this registration does not imply state approval)