Regenerating urban areas by fostering places of exchange, local services, and high-quality amenities, while carefully balancing sociocultural diversity, the sharing of common spaces, and the specific needs of each programme.
«Beyond the spatial and physical characteristics of the buildings, the challenge here is that of urbanity understood in the broadest sense, in other words "social intercommunication", which perpetuates the idea of cohabitation, exchange and encounter specific to the urban environment and recognizes the importance of public space as a fertile receptacle of diversity, proximity and amenity.»
Stefan Graf, Raffael Graf, Emmanuel Rey, Yorick Ringeisen, «Régénérer les territoires urbains» in Urbanitéhybride/Hybrid Urbanity, Birkhäuser, 2024.
«What is striking in this new part of the city – yet at the same time seems self-evident – is its fragmentary, scenographic nature and complexity: a dense sum of precisely designed and adjusted elements, without losing sight of the overall form of the city. (…) No scorched earth remained, nor the scent of freshly mown suburban grass. Here too, a city has emerged within the city. And where the place is good, so are the events.»
Markus Jakob, « Les bonnes manières de l’architecture » in Promenades, Park Books, 2018.
«For Bauart, the pursuit of optimal densification goes hand in hand with the creation of a continuous network of high-quality public spaces, composed of squares, streets, but also alleyways, passages, gardens, and so on. The main public spaces (…) are connected to key amenities and activities (…): they are representational spaces with a symbolic impact, as they shape the urban image of a place – for residents, but also for passers-by, strollers, and others.»
Bruno Marchand, « L’esprit de la vile » in Quartier Ecoparc 2, Birkhaüser, 2009.
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