Dec 1 2014
The "Passerelle du Millénaire" (Millennium Gateway) developed by Bauart, of which Prof. Emmanuel Rey from the Laboratory of Architecture and sustainable development (LAST) is partner, was rewarded by the 2014 Swiss Award for Pedestrian Infrastructures ("Flâneur d’Or 2014"). This realization, which forms part of Ecoparc neighborhood, aims at fostering sustainable mobility in the framework of a significant urban regeneration process.
National competition organized for the eighth time, the Swiss Award for Pedestrian Infrastructures, or "Flâneur d’Or 2014", aims at rewarding interesting and innovative realizations which promote pedestrian mobility. On this occasion, the architecture journal Hochparterre published a special issue presenting the awarded projects.
The "Passerelle du Millénaire" (Millennium Gateway) takes advantage of the urban regeneration of a former railway brownfield to provide a new soft mobility link (walking and cycling) between the station plateau and the Mail hill. It fosters in particular students’ and inhabitants’ sustainable mobility between the station, the Campus Arc and the University.
Its architectural and structural concept stems from a careful reading of the site’s historical, morphologic and spatial specificities. The contextual approach enables the project to create a precise link into the territory, to guarantee a subtle integration within the neighborhood and to express a specific and identity.
Author: Loïc Fumeaux
Source: Laboratoire d'architecture et technologies durables
Source: http://actu.epfl.ch/