Staging Movement

This project questions how to stage movement – and life – in urban space. The project proposes to revitalise the Veveyse torrent by giving it back the unbuilt spaces it used to flow through before industrialisation; by redesigning the branches proper to its morphology, rebuilding the banks that once created different types of relations between water and city, and reopening the Monneresses, two branches that would again serve as urban promenades. The former Veveyse delta is designed as an urban park, capable of supporting different forms of life and connecting different urban tissues. Through a walk from vineyards to lake, the project reinvents the procession that was at the origin of the «Fête des Vignerons» and interprets the idea of Festspiel not only as an event that happens across generations, but as a way of animating everyday stages through movement. The succession of these stages rhythmises the movement along the park and anticipates the steps on the place du Marché, which open onto the water stage and the mountain scene.