Fructus 2022
Communaux d’Ambilly © Atelier Bonnet
The architect Pierre Bonnet was recently the guest of Prof. Emmanuel Rey’s studio at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST). Entitled « Fructus 2022 », his conference allowed students to discover several operations including housing and offices, being developed and carried out in the Geneva conurbation.
For the Atelier Bonnet, the crossover from one scale to another, from furniture to urban space, from city to housing, and vice versa, is an opportunity to contribute to thinking and to question the preconceived ideas. From the great landscape to the immediate environment of the constructed buildings, close ties are created between the large and the small scale, a filiation between the large and the small projects and, more generally, a subtle bond between the different programs tested.
From dense housing in the city center to the urban units of the Communaux d'Ambilly, the conference allowed students to discover various project-based approaches, which resonate with the issues addressed in the RHODANIE URBAINE studio.
These multiple approaches have made it possible to put into perspective the questions of conceptual coherence, built morphology, landscape, spatiality and expression with broader issues related to the urban transformation process experienced by most European metropolises today.