Interactive Websites
Interactive websites allow the public to view and vote on design schemes. ACP uses interactive websites to allow the public to voice their opinions, often employing pictograms to up or down-vote elements of the proposals. ACP often couples online tools with publicly accessible or mobile workshops to ensure that those without computer access are equally involved.
“Entrée Nord” Nouméa Interactive Masterplan
The masterplan of Noumea proposes to transforms the only gate into the city into a dynamic cultural centre and public space. ACP’s study of the site revealed that the entrance was a no man’s land composed of a large abandoned hospital, its parking lot, and an expressway. The site required a series of interventions to address its location at the intersection of multiple transportation systems, its adjacent to a commercial and touristic harbor, and its relationship to an abandoned hospital.
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The ACP team used a short animation to show the before and after conditions of the site, highlighting each urban move step-by-step; the creation of a new waterfront, the reactivation of the hospital with new cultural programs, the creation of a footbridge, an the introduction of a botanical garden and a visitors’ terminal in the port. ACP used the plan of the site as a background and selected very simple graphics to make the complex transformation of the site easily understood by several demographicsl. Zineb Tazi helped to develop the animation.
"Designing Together" Sidi Harazem Interactive MasterPlan
The masterpiece of Jean-François Zevaco, the thermal complex of Sidi Harazem, is currently a chaotic mix of abandoned buildings, overgrown gardens, aging amenities, and public spaces filled with informal food and craft stalls. Our goal was to reorganize, improve, and expand the current amenities while protecting Zevaco’s modern heritage. To achieve this, we co-designed a masterplan with local stakeholders and opened it up for suggestions and debate by placing an interactive version of it on the project’s website, allowing people to vote for their favorite programs and even suggest new ones.
What do you think of the Masterplan? Let us know by checking the interactive website here.
“Help us design” the future of 3 ecotourism sites in the Souss Massa Region via whatsapp groups
In 2023, the Regional Tourism Development Company (SDRT) of the Souss Massa Region invited architect Aziza Chaouni and her team to collaborate on developing pilot ecotourism projects in the Souss Massa Region. Our common ambition was to use a collaborative process to understand local needs and site constraints, to develop a masterplan for the entire area surrounding each site, and to design state of the art, innovative facilities and infrastructure that reimagine vernacular techniques and minimize impact on the environment.
Through a series of workshops we co-designed with locals 3 masterplans for the following sites: the Boutbouqalt Spring, the Targua N’touchka Spring and Ammeln, all located a couple of hours South of the city of Agadir. We published them on a website and asked people to join whatsapp groups dedicated to each site to send us comments and suggestions. The Whatsapp groups have proven to be very active and helpful at making us not only perceive news facets of the sites which we had missed, but also to integrate voices which had not taken part in the workshops.
What do you think of the masterplans for the 3 sites? Let us know by checking them out here.