earth
land
territory

Travelling exhibition designed by ANMA Architectes Urbanistes, produced by the CAUE Rhône metropoleThe exhibition was designed by ANMA Architectes Urbanistes, in partnership with the ANMA Foundation, the BRGM national geological survey and Sciences Po l’École urbaine. The first exhibition will take place at the CAUE Rhône Métropole in Lyon from February 8 to May 20, 2022.

The exhibition proposes to unfold the mechanisms of the manufacture of the city by initiating a change of perception in our way of apprehending and valuing the soil.

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question
the values of the soils

This research work explores and questions the values of our soils. He sheds light on the development processes at work and asks why society values its fertile land so little. It invites each visitor to change the way he or she looks at the soil. Do we really know the value of what’s under our feet?

The scenography distinguishes three main times. The first, rules of the game, to assimilate the manufacture of the city and its relationship to the soil: soil heritage, chronological frieze, soil values, economic construction of the development. The second, contemplative, to immerse oneself in three large animated cuts illustrating the tensions highlighted. And the last one, in the form of tracks, to open towards other ways.

reinterview
the city’s construction

By inviting us to consider the soil as a common heritage, this exhibition presents the strata of the soil as clues to a collective and plural past history. A committed story that reveals the accelerating transformation of this limited resource.

Can observing the effects of our societies on our soils reexamine our ways of life? Does the eternal constraint of the economic balance of city building inevitably generate a debt inscribed in the soil for future generations?

itineraries

First exhibition in Lyon
at CAUE Rhône Métropole, February 2022
Lyon
November to December 2022: Metropole de Lyon offices
Annecy
April to September 2023: l’Îlot-S, CAUE de Haute-Savoie
Toulouse
May to September 2023: CAUE de Haute-Garonne
Strasbourg
September to October 2023: CAUE d’Alsace
Toulouse
October 6 to 8, 2023: Toulouse Demain
Rouen
October 2023 to January 2024: Maison de l’architecture de Normandie
Metz
October 2023 to April 2024: SCoT de l’Agglomération Messine
Bordeaux
February to May 2024: CAUE de Gironde
Columbus
march to may 2024: eCo. urban
Montpellier
September 2024: CAUE de l’Hérault

EXPO TEAM

COMMISSIONER : ANMA Architectes Urbanistes
Project manager : Agrippa Leenhardt
Researcher : Pierre Bouilhol
Communication and coordination : Emil Walbron
Project assistants : Albane Viateau, Laurène Hillion, Marie-Alix Gourlet
Set design : Élise Glory

SUPPORT : ANMA Corporate Foundation
President : Anne-Laure d’Artemare
Proofreading : Clélia Fortier

GRAPHIC AND VIDEO DESIGN : Les Zinc
Vincent Hennebert, Gaëtan Buffon, Julien Stephan

ILLUSTRATION : Clément Vuillier

SOUND ANIMATION : Studio V7
Pablo Chazel

Right : Forest soil section illustrating fertile soil values

Then : Building on a field, an industrial wasteland, in town?

PRODUCTION

DIRECTION : CAUE Rhône Métropole
Director : Sébastien Sperto
Project leader : Anna Costes

READING
Delphine Blanc, Iris Huneau, Romain Marchetti,
Florent Perroud

SECTORAL EXPERTISE
YannGérard, Hélène Reynaud (Adéquation)
Aimeric Fabris (EPORA)
Sabine Lozier, Olivier Roussel (Lyon Metropolitan Area Urban Planning Agency)

CONSTRUCTION, LIGHTING, SETTING
Jean-Claude Laurent, Jean-Philippe Murgue, Julien Montet

COMMUNICATION AND PARTNERSHIP
In Medias Res

PRINTING
AGP, ATC Group

PHOTOGRAPH:
©F. Perroud CAUE69

ASSOCIATES

PREPARATORY WORK
Collective project for the urban planning cycle at Sciences Po Paris (2019-2021)
Students: Sarah Ayoub, Marie Carbo, Shana Cohen,
Amrita Maitra
Tutor : Marie Llorente
Person in charge of training : Marina Gaget

GEOLOGICAL DATA AND CARBING
BRGM : Olivier Serrano, Romain Darnault

SECTORAL EXPERTISE
XavierBonnaud : architect, professor (ENSA Paris-La Villette, GERPHAU)
Cédric Lavigne : consultant in archaeogeography
Marie Llorente : economist, consultant and researcher in urban planning
Xavier Marié : agropedologist engineer, urban landscape designer (Sol Paysage)
Christian Piel : urban planner and hydrologist (UrbanWater)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Barbara Belle (La Foncière du Grand Lyon)
Anne Blanchard (Sol & Co)
Henri Bossart
Arnaud Cecillon (Rhône Saône Habitat)
Joseph Comby
Mélanie Foucault (Archaeology Department of the City of Lyon)
Mélusine Hucault (ANMA)
Hugues Jacquet
Amélie Leguay (SERL)
Nicolas Michelin
Benoit Tracol (Rhône Saône Habitat)

Left: Territorial Axonometry of Saint-Nazaire.

a. Marais de Brière b. Networks of marshes c. Agricultural frame, bocage d. Road and rail networks e. Marine flooding area inspired by the sea level 3000 years ago f. Sediments deposited by the Loire River / erosion of the bedrock g. Rocky base of Saint-Nazaire h. Buttes eroded by the sea 3000 years ago

1. Marshland 2. Forest land 3. Agricultural land (meadow) 4. Industrial land 5. Suburban land (permeable) 6. Suburban soil (low permeability) 7. Downtown soil (waterproof)