item (s):
hazards) :
risk (s):
land address:
gestures and notions of transformation:
author (s):
year of diploma:
WATER
River flood
Flood
Saint-Louis-du-Senegal | SAINT LOUIS OF SENEGAL
Absent gesture rethinking the homogeneous infrastructure and initiating multifunctional and heterogeneous responses | The fault + Commitment with nature
Benjamin MELLOR-RIBET – Louisa MALGUITOU
2018
item (s):
hazards) :
risk (s):
land address:
gestures and notions of transformation:
author (s):
year of diploma:
WATER
River flood
Flood
Saint-Louis-du-Senegal | SAINT LOUIS OF SENEGAL
Absent gesture rethinking the homogeneous infrastructure and initiating multifunctional and heterogeneous responses | The fault + Commitment with nature
Benjamin MELLOR-RIBET – Louisa MALGUITOU
2018
"Submersion of Typha in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal"
Located in the northwest of Senegal, at the crossroads of the Sahara desert and the sub-Saharan savannah, the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegal river, the city of Saint Louis was built in an estuary recognized worldwide for the importance of ecosystems moist that compose it. Following long periods of drought in the 1970s, the river was channeled and dammed. These regulation installations are today critical for the life of the river and its inhabitants: human and non-human. Saint-Louis has become, over time, a veritable archipelago of urbanized islands, sparingly linked by two slightly elevated infrastructures: a road and a canal. Typha, an invasive plant, proliferates and could establish itself as a means of facing the problems of constructive resources of which the city is a victim (no tree). What virtuous project to reveal the possibilities of a territory subject to so many problems?
#Inhabited environment
# Hazards and risks
#Project on hypothesis
