TRANSITIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS

Society project based on the built heritage in crisis with regard to climate change in a mid-mountain context in Haute-Savoie.

Climate change has never been so visible as in the mountains. The pre-alpine massifs are at the forefront and their resources are being disrupteduncertain snow cover, drought in the alpine pastures and an epidemic of bark beetle on the common spruce - and are generating a cascade of problems that will soon leave a vacant built heritage.

It is precisely this transformation and the future of the alpine chalets, ski resorts and technical infrastructures that are at stake in the Aulps and Arve valleys. The use of the mountains that we have inherited for 60 years is obsolete. The economic models are in crisis and this context seems to be conducive to imagining new possibilities.

To try to respond to such a vast and marked territory, the project is structured around four interventions of decreasing scale defined by their footprint. Other territorial essences are injected, such as crafts and culture, to initiate a change, but the constant interest in the valorisation of spruce wood weaves the link between the material and its territory.