AUMP: architecture, urban morphogenesis and planning

Several research axis: scales, project planning, lateral planning

Scales

The proposed research concerns the East-West axis of Strasbourg, both as a large-scale project and as an emerging spatial structure, in relation to the large Hautepierre area of the town, the Parc des Poteries area and the implantation site of the large facilities to the west. The research is at a crossroads of two complementary interdisciplinary approaches: the analysis of the genesis of establishment forms and of the elaboration of the projects formulated by the supervisory team members and the project management team which will be carried out more particularly by the Architecture, Urban Morphogenesis and Planning Team in joint authorisation with ENSA (Strasbourg Higher National School of Architecture) and INSA, and the study of perceptions, representations and daily mobility practices among inhabitants which will be led primarily by the Geographic Mobility team of the Laboratoire Image et Ville (City and Town Laboratory), Mixed Research Unit, 7011 University of Louis Pasteur, National Centre for Scientific Research.

Project planning

Our reasoning is based on a multidisciplinary and comparative approach whereby, in focusing on the project as a process, we attempt to uncover not only the evolutionary progress of the project itself but also to understand its nature.

From these key concepts of our study - project planning, times, places, use and representativeness - our methodology questions on the one hand the viability of such a reasoning and on the other hand the outlining of "rules" which emerged from analysis of projects chosen in various disciplinary fields. In doing so, one of the objectives is to find out whether transposition is possible and in this case to open new prospective paths.