Colorful installations, resulting from reuse, have appeared on Quai Jules Courmont and on the river stop at the end of Place Antonin Poncet. These are the beginnings of the Rive Droite project.
Of the wooden seats fixed on sheet metal platformsof the play areascolors that remind us that the Rhone river is not far. These portable public places have appeared on the large tarmac spaces located at the entrance to Wilson and Lafayette bridges.
The project Right bankcarried by the Metropolis of Lyon in connection with the City of Lyonmakes a large place fortransitional urban planning from the design phase and for several years.
Giant frescoes and portable public spaces
To start the reappropriation of the banks of the Rhône peninsula side, giant frescoes have appeared on the ground. portable public spaces have been installed. As well as a large shade house placed on the pier of Place Antonin Poncet.
“The uses and feedback from users will integrate the consultation which will enrich the project Right bank » promises Metropolis of Lyon.
The project of the Right Bank of the Rhone aims to reconquer 2.5 linear kilometers of quaialong the Peninsula. Objective: transform one of the last urban highways in one garden walk. To enable new uses and an heritage enhancementas close as possible to river and within the UNESCO perimeter.
Transitional urban planning has already been experimented with in other public spaces in the Metropolis. Place Grandclément in Villeurbanne or on the Charlemagne course pedestrianized on an experimental basis in 2022…).
Transitional urban planning at the service of urban transformation
L’transitional urban planning participates in the process of urban transformationwith the gradual reappropriation of spaceswhile complementing traditional tools of citizen participation. “Monitoring will be put in place on the transitional arrangements in order to be able to report on usage during the prefiguration period » underlines Greater Lyon.
It is Fridge noisemember of the project management group composed around the BASE landscaperwho is in charge of this experiment. Fridge Noise imagined mobile and removable arrangements. They may be moved as the work progresses…
THE portable public spaces appeal to prefabricated and reusable industrial objects. Such as cradles, scaffolding and containers. The Shades are made, for their part, fromindustrial steel elements. Reuse…
The Bruit du Frigo collective chosen to install this unusual furniture
« Ces transitional arrangements allow you to activate spaces waiting to be transformed. Once installed, these new furniture make an event and initiate new appropriations of quays and bridgespour support the change of image and the vocation of the places. These unusual furniture are intended for the contemplation and the détente and prefigure the large space figures of the urban and landscaping redevelopment project.” explains the Bruit du Frigo collective.
THE furniture are deployed at the same time as the 3rd edition of the Festival between Rhône and Saône. They are installed on 3 sites along the Rhône:pier from Place Antonin Poncet, north of Pont Wilson and north of the Pont Lafayette.
The installation of furniture is accompanied by colorful frescoescarried out by theplastic artist and designer Bart Lanzini. The design is based on the elements of project to renature the banks of the Rhôneto develop a poetic imagination and create a recognizable identity between the 3 sites.
Discussion under the shade…
L’shade house will also serve as a support to accommodate consultation time around Right Bank project. The consultation continues in several forms. It will also give rise to a forum and an public meeting July 10. Others time for consultation and information on the project are planned. The dates will be available on the platform jeparticipe.grandlyon.com
« L’transitional urban planning allows the greatest number to be associated with the reappropriation of public space. And to continuously feed our team’s project landscapers. It allows the operation to be established over the long term, to support the lifestyle changes and D’adapt the project to uses. It is about placing users and citizens at the heart of the reconquest of the docks, from the launch of the project. ” precise Béatrice Vessillervice-president of the Lyon Metropolis in charge of urban planning and living environment.
« The Right Bankit is the garden of the Peninsula : calm, freshness, nature. The transitional arrangements are an opportunity for every Lyonnais to immediately discover this place. An opportunity to create from now on new uses on these spaces, so that all users can take ownership of this public space privatized so far by the only circulation automobile. » complete Raphaël Michaudthe deputy delegate for the Affordable Low-Carbon and Desirable City
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