The engineer and Mont Blanc, or the utopia of coping with the slope

As part of the European DAHU project (2023-2026), the Department of Haute-Savoie's Archaeology and Built Heritage Department is using various inventoried sites to present the engineer's responses to the constraints of the slope.

Whether craft, industry or civil engineering, engineering has always had to deal with slope and relief constraints. From Chedde to the Piralotaz bridge, this dimension of risk has proved particularly decisive: it conditions development choices and guides the technical solutions implemented. Through concrete, long-term examples, this talk highlights the way in which technical ingenuity and the perception of risk have constantly interacted, shaping the evolution of infrastructure in an area subject to the movements of Mont-Blanc and the whims of the Arve.

Lecture by Samir Mahfoudi.