Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet hospitals: transformations and future of a wasteland
15As part of the Transformative Urban Studies (Trust) international Master’s program at the Institut d’urbanisme et de géographie alpine (IUGA), and at the invitation of the “Les milieux” association, this educational workshop looks at the transformation and future of a 40-hectare wasteland in the commune of Plateau-des-Petites-Roches, in the eastern foothills of the Chartreuse massif.
The medical activity of the former Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet hospital site was relocated to the valley between 2008 and 2010. The buildings were demolished in 2018, and the land remodeled and partially “re-naturalized” under the direction of the State. Some plots fell into the public domain in 2021. The largest is still privately owned, the legal status of the common roads and structures remains unclear, and responsibility for managing the site has not been fully determined.
As a natural, anthropized environment in the throes of change, the post-demolition issues facing this site are multiple and complex. They appear to be decisive for the future of the area, and question our collective relationship with life and landscape.
The wasteland, located in the commune of Plateau-des-Petites-Roches on the bangs of Grenoble’s metropolitan area, encompasses a number of landscape, heritage and territorial issues in the making, which the association Les Milieux proposes to examine through the work of a multi-disciplinary team (artist-documentarist-graphic artist, geographer, historian, landscape architect, etc.) in association with Master Trust urban planning students.
Training Chartreuse Culture and heritage Planning, public policy and governance Populations and territories
