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Chemin des Carrières, Alsace
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24 Feb 2017
Chemin des Carrières, Alsace
Location: Rosheim-St Nabor railway, Alsace, North East France
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS
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Chemin des Carrières in Alsace
Chemin des Carrières, the Quarries? Track, is a lace undulating in the landscape, an invitation to travel as our ambition behind the reconquest of the Rosheim-St Nabor railway in Alsace, France.
Ominous, sometimes hidden, the vestiges of the railway still mark the reading of the site. The desire to create a route to serve the quarries had to adapt to the undulating landscapes of the sub-Vosges hills and the very form of the tracing tells the history of the landscape and the men.
The journey to discover forgotten landscapes or to take a different view on everyday landscapes is addressed to both local users and tourists. Like the old track that offered a dual function (industrial and passenger transport), the route has a double vocation where the functional must rub shoulders with the imaginary of travel.
Along the 11km path goes a story, which the stops split into four chapters of different sequences of landscapes offering varied universes and highlighting remarkable sites. Unusual elements punctuate the way, aimi...