IFLA EUROPE YEARBOOK 2016
FÉDÉRATION FRANÇAISE DU PAYSAGE (FFP)
The urban edges of Saint-Paul The urban edges of Saint-Paul (La Réunion Island), won by the office Follea-Gautier, landscape architects at the Grand French National Award of Landscape Architecture 2016. With the regional council, the landscape architects have successfully set ambitious landscape orientations for the west coast of the island. The project continued over time (12 years) at the scale of the large territory covers the design of an urban edge at St. Paul, a town in La Reunion Island (Indian Ocean). The fourfold project around the highway allows the inhabitants to reclaim their living spaces: Re-creating a wetland area which constitutes the identity of the town, 2 promenades and a new road junction downsized and repositioned.
Contemporary challenges for the urban landscape ARIANE DELILEZ, FFP REPRESENTATIVE MS. KARIN HELMS, IFLA EUROPE DELEGATE
The four-fold project: re-creating a wetland area © Agence Follea-Gautier
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