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.
Located to the east of the Nantes metropolitan area, the Divatte Valley stretches for 14 km between the minor bed of the Loire, which corresponds to the area of the river under permanent water, and the Coteau de la Roche, a rocky outcrop carved out by the waters. The Divatte Valley is part of the major bed of the Loire, the area of influence of the river waters. It takes its name from the River Divatte, a tributary of the Loire that flows through it. This 25 km² sedimentary valley is criss-crossed by numerous boires, which collect run-off water and carry it to the foot of the hillside.
For 4 months, in preparation for the Piscine de la Coudrouseproject, I walked, studied, researched and shared around this valley, and more specifically the Coudrouse transect. My research led me to map the valley and its floods, study the market-gardening industry, understand mass tourism and river bathing, and observe transformations following the removal of dykes, levees and other territorial infrastructures. This PFE report is the outcome of this research and an introduction to the project to reopen the Coudrouse river which is due to be submitted in June 2024.
Like my master's thesis, the publication of this memorandum enables me to share my vision of the land and its development, and my research practice, more widely.
More details on the content of this notice are available in the Hypotheses booklet mentioned above.
