Graduation project, Grands sentiers with Anne Bossé + Petra Marguc, Ensa Nantes, 2024
The Grands sentiers led by Anne Bossé, invites you to explore the area on foot, by walking. This action is as much a manifesto as it is a tool for apprehending spaces, enabling us to adopt a posture at the scale of the body in movement. With a strong focus on architectural research on Nantes, the project aims to create a major metropolitan trail by the end of its fourth and final edition in 2024. More information is available in the dedicated Hypothèse booklet https://gdsentiers.hypotheses.org/which compiles the genesis and approach of each project developed, including the Parlement de Tougas created in the same studio.
As part of this project, we were asked to present the preliminary stages of a project on our site, in this case the Divatte valley, during a 2-day bivouac. I chose a cross-section of the Coudrouse transect, from the Divatte levee to Saint-Julien-de-Concelles hillside. The aim of this cross-section was to provide an understanding of the space, history and current state of the site, as well as the people involved and the future of the area. The challenge here is to bring together very different scales in a single document. The frieze is divided into 3 interconnected sections, which will be displayed throughout the presentation.
The first part presents the Divatte valley on two scales through the prism of industrial market gardening, with its extent, its production but also, and above all, its excesses, its hold on the land, water and bodies, and its destructive developments.
The second part highlights changes made to the major bed of the Loire in the 19th and 20th centuries to enable the market gardening industry to develop.
The third and final part develops a prospective scenario for the reopening of the Levée de la Divatte, which would later become the Réouverture de la Levée de la Divatte with its swimming pool and the redevelopment of the transect.
I produced the frieze myself, prototyped it by hand, illustrated it digitally, printed it on 180g glossy paper and bound it with strips of glue and paper. The whole thing is over 8 metres long.
