Luye's Valley Urban Project in Gap
Luye's valley development project unites Gap's different neighborhoods around its river. The design relies on three main principles:
The recognition of the existing site's quality and inheritance.
Considering the project as a process rather than a finished object.
The will to connect the different existing.
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The territorial and urban strategy relies on three founding acts:
Affirm the river course, its bed and its continuity through the city, its main riverbed as a link, unifying the site and allowing the reunification of the city and its neighborhoods around it. Even its tributaries are part of a consistent system and are as many doors to access the Luye’s valley.
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This territorial strategy, based upon the inheritance and genius loci, leads to the third episode of the city's reorganization around its river. To put it in a nutshell, a renewed way to live "in Gap, with the Luye".
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- Sponsor
- City of GAP
- Situation
- Vallée de la Luye 05000 GAP - 44°33’57.5’’N / 6°06’04.0’’E
- Partners
- Pic, Hydraulic Engineer
- Budget / Area
- 6 000 000 € / 8 km
- Date
- 2002 - 2003