Interview about the book GREEN DENSITY
In a recent interview, Prof. Emmanuel Rey explains some of the main issues presented in the book GREEN DENSITY, edited at the Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR). The book presents six original visions elaborated at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) for the Waldstadt sector in Bern. By an interdisciplinary approach at various intervention scales - from urban design to constructive detail - they aim at experimenting, assessing and comparing various urban shapes in a perspective of urban sustainability.
In a context of questioning urban sprawl, sites likely to welcome new residents and jobs close to public transport are acquiring a particularly strategic status. Their densification makes it possible to consider the creation of new mixed neighborhoods as a contribution to a more sustainable built environment.
Wooded strip of land bordering the city of Bern and separated from the Bremgarten forest by the highway, the Waldstadt sector on which the research and teaching work presented in GREEN DENSITY focuses, constitutes an investigation field particularly well adapted to the exploration of these issues.
The book presents in particular six visions elaborated at the laboratory starting off with student works carried out within the framework of the architectural design studio of Prof. Emmanuel Rey and several thematic perspectives exposed by invited experts from different disciplines and backgrounds. From complementary approaches, they aim at experimenting, comparing and assessing various possible urban shapes for the development of such a site.
Green Density | Emmanuel Rey (Ed.)
Preface by Pascal Gontier.
Contributions by Marilyne Andersen, Michael R. Doyle, Vincent Kaufmann, Romain Kilchherr, Sophie Lufkin, Emilie Nault, Emmanuel Rey, Philippe Thalmann and Marie-Paule Thomas.
Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2013, 192 pages.
ISBN 978-2-88915-021-2.