Team Walker
Christophe Dargent, Elena Maj, Salvatore Festini, CĂŠdric Agustin Damon, Julien Rambuad, Nadia Catalina Combariza Diaz elop* environment-focused learning and operative platform
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A sustanable and anthropic system
Team Lucy Walker 27th oct 2014
Penelope’s tapestry
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An evolving territory, made of crossed and connected events With time, anthropic and natural evolution processes built systems in the valley. They also convert (or even destroy) those systems, with the evolution necessity. The metaphor of Penelope’s tapestry could help showing this process. Weaving and unweaving the territory systems, is the way we see the valley’s evolution. Taking responsibility for that moving system, we use it a soft-acting and time-considering project.
«Penelope and the Suitors» John William Waterhouse 1912
1. Three words to guide our vision
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1.1 Global vision
1.2 Specific
1.3 Modest
We think that this region could and should be more and more connected with global context in the future. ÂŤThe world valleyÂť...
Despite that strong link with its surrounding, the valley should define and keep its identity. All the more since the perturbations about to come during the next century.
We believe that a perennial and long-term project relies more on small and adaptable actions, than on big-scale and heavy layingouts. It takes in account the grounding context (local and ancestral civilisation) and natural ecosystem. Acting softly and in an adaptative way.
energetic networks
worldwide community
risk management
rethink the dam
small laying
light and remouvable
aero transport systems
school exchanges
local agriculture
mountain sports
minimum of impact
social actions
2. Our four criterias for a good selection of actions
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2.1 Multifunctional 2.2 Changing
2.3 Involving
2.4 Connected
2.1 The actions that we will propose should be useful to different uses, people, purposes. This would enable an optimised resources consumption, as well as the crossing of different energies and processes of development.
New paradigm : see the inhabitants of the valley as the first actors of their development. Propose them a set of simple, accessible actions. See the tourists as much more than passing consumers ; make them partners, workers of the valley. Make them ...family.
Develop the villages and the valley by considering that they can do it better by learning from the others. Bright up the local knowledge and culture as well ; ÂŤstudents can be teachers tooÂť.
2.2 Inspired by nature, the structures can evolve from a shape/use, to a new one. Evolution can be transformation or also moving to a more adapted place.
combinated functions
changing fonctionsvv
crowdfunding
sharing knowledges
architecture by roads crowdsourcing
adaptable sport equip.
interactive infrastructure
workshop and woofing
free sharing ideas
electric network
screan capture
Short term priorities
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3.0 Emergency actions 1.Improve mobility 2.Bring education structures age of people in Finhaut
3.Care of older people 4.Call to youth to come back/
stay there
add vertical connections
focus education on natural and traditional setting
Use the existing buildings Give direct access to tree huts in Finhaut for a senior house
3 Windows to the future
3.1 Climat Change According to The Advisory Body on Climat Change (OcCC), by 2050, the areacovered by alpin glaciers will have dininished by about 3/4 in the case of medium warming. What would happen with the 120 millions tourists who visit the alps every year? We have to base our idears on a durable element.
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3.2 Durable tourism workshop and woofing
focus education on natural and traditional setting
local transportation
natural welness
Old hous renovation
tree hut
As a prevention and an answer to this climat change, we will propose solutions based on durable recources. New generation tourist will come to learn about what nature has to offer. Let the Verbier tourists in Verbier and create a new pole of attractivity with what nature has to offer in this valley region.
Natural spa local products (oil, clay) outdoor infrastructure slow wellness
Workshop 1, 3 or 7 days depending on the season !! -mushrooms discovery -plant medecine -avalanche security class -tree cutting
Housing depending on the season !! -tree hut -Igloo -cliff hut -farm housing -hostel
3 Windows to the future
3.3 Social infrastructures
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4 Systems
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4.1 Integration of ecologic moves 4.2 Integration of slope risks
Ecologic corridors : shelters for horizontal and vertical moves of wild species
Protections and gravity managment
Protection afforestation on the summits
Protection afforestation on the edges of corridors
Avalanche corridor, rock slide
Avalanche corridor, rock slide
Forest
Protection infrastructures
Pastures Snowpower plants
4 Systems
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4.3 Inner farm system
4.4 Farm system on a slope context
October Pastures year B
Pastures year A
Woofer accomodation + Cattle keeper house
Pastures
May
Preparation
Woofer accomodation
Cable lift for cattle, material or people
Cattle shed
Milk + meat factory
Storage
Waste recovery
Cultivation fields
Farmer house + Food consumption
Woofer accomodation
Preparation
Farm education structure
Harvest factory
Storage
Product retail
Car park + Touristic farm office
Cultivation
Woofer accomodation Farm
3 Windows to the future
4.5 The Market Train A train that is transformed on a Market. It will drive between villages on the main railway. It starts in Martigny and stop 2 hours in every villages. So people have time to sale their own products and buy other that they need. It is a way of combining mobility and shopping all along the valley. Share products!! Save infrastructure!! And propose a new way of shopping!!
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3 Windows to the future
4.6 Mobility in the village
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4 Systems
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4.7 Inner forest system
4.8 Forest center on a slope context To the summits
Exploided area
Woofer accomodation
Exploided area
Transport, manutention area
Cable lift
Forest station
Cable lift for wood and people
Transport, manutention area Exploided area Woofer accomodation Forest station Decade 1
Road / cable lift
Woofer accomodation Forest gards eco-education center + office
Wood architecture education center
Forest exploitation education center + office
Touristic office
Car park + Touristic farm office
Woofer accomodation
Preserved area Forest station Decade 2
Forest station Decade 3
Forest center
To the valley
4 Systems
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5 Mapping
5.1 Micro scale Spead fonctions all around the village to have a better impact. Centralise a meeting and social area in the village. In the idea of population increase think of rise in high as if it was already be done here to maintain the duality between landscape and built environment that together generate the local attractivness.
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15 Flying wind turbines Dams
Summits
5.2 Global situation Woofer accomodation
Wellness +nature Snowpower plant
Independant energy plant Village network
Agri-touristic center
Forest+tourism center Agri-touristic center
Agri-touristic center
Road Rail road
Wellness +nature
Woofer accomodation
Snowpower plant
Forest+tourism center
Hydropower plant Local and national network
Valley bottom
5 Mapping
5.3 Macro scale
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