Merya Conversion Sanitary Building / BARAKI

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  • Architects: BARAKI
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  240
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Matthieu Croizier
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Fierz
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© Matthieu Croizier

Text description provided by the architects. Built in the late 1980s, the Gruyère rest area was designed in the spirit of post-modernism, reconfiguring vernacular materials and architectural elements to form a complex of several buildings, including the public toilets building, which is the subject of this conversion. The existing building has a masonry base, mainly made with reinforced concrete, with a facing of local river pebbles visible from the outside. A glued-laminated timber frame forms a 2-slope roof. This triangular volume is laterally offset, creating a covered square in front of the entrance to the toilet blocks. To support the loads, four oblique beams are extended to the ground, providing impressive views of Lac de Gruyère and the Fribourg Pre-Alps.

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Cite: "Merya Conversion Sanitary Building / BARAKI" 17 Oct 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1022433/merya-conversion-sanitary-building-baraki> ISSN 0719-8884

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Merya Conversion Sanitary Building / BARAKI

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