The corniche of Dakar will be radiant.

This journey will be exceptional and surprising, made of unprecedented situations, joyful celebrations and contextual experiences.

Our proposal is inspired and rooted in a set of unique and particularly fertile sites.

These are, in our eyes, more than just familiar landscapes, or admirable reductive pictures depicted for the sole purpose of contemplation.

These places take on a much more substantial meaning, much more captivating in their relationship to a very specific urban, social and cultural fabric that deserves to be celebrated.

We propose to compose this project around situations that will be more experiential than contemplative.

This set of experiences are inspired by context-specific practices, by what at first glance may seem ordinary.

These must be proudly celebrated.

These situations should write a history that draws its meaning from the richness of its own territory, a history that is written locally, in the present and that predicts a spontaneously joyful and promising future.

We have written the corniche of Dakar in five sequences.

Each sequence has its stories, its episodes and its situations that take shape around singular devices.

These "elements" are connected by a "cordon" that underlines the route as well as the instances proposed on the coastal front.

On the urban side, we propose to reformulate the sidewalk in the image of a color palette that invokes the coastline, its marine and mineral richness as well as the marvelous shades of its horizon... and this to better re-connect the coastline to the urban fabric. The geometric composition of the sidewalk slabs will be defined by a rehabilitation method that consists of articulating and aestheticizing the renovation and reconstruction processes that we have implemented specifically for this mission. The materials proposed for the whole intervention are also part of a logic of aesthetics and maritime practices ... from the mineral that invokes the colors of the waterfront, to ropes and nets to celebrate the practices of fishing ...  

Certainly, some elements of our work call upon expertise in fields such as maritime engineering, botany and other specialties specific to building engineering, but this does not prevent our project from also making use of para-architectural practices to take shape. The strategies, methods and tools used for its development will not be only conventional. For that, we will also have to introduce practices specific to the local craft industry, or to certain contemporary artistic works and other landscape installations.

The corniche of Dakar will be radiant and joyful. It will have the mood, spirit and culture of its citizens. We will not need to look elsewhere for inspiration to tell it.