Urban accessibility in Sète
Sète is a resort village in the Mediterranean coast of France. In 2011, its population and the number of tourists were decreasing because it had become a dirty, outdate and unaccessible city.
By thoroughly analysing the city's urban development, its topography and its accessibility, we design a new urban development for Sète, focusing on tourism.
The project is about designing an accessible net, so everyone could go through all the streets in town. On one hand, we worked with streets that follow the direction of topographic, and on the other hand, we worked on the perpendicular streets that connect the first ones.
Longitudinal streets uses were changed, enlarging and connecting them with squares and improving their pavements. In the streets which crossed the longitudinal ones, the most inaccessible points were detected. They were made accessible by using ramps or urban lifts.
The result was a wide accessible urban net, not only for tourist but also for Sète’s inhabitants.
Team members: Rickarda Beek, Anna Ochwat, Laura Ronquillo, Daniele Saporita.
Sète Municipallity competition: First Prize
