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Architects
Agence Beckmann-N’Thépé -
Location
Passy - 74, France -
Project Team
Laura Giovannetti, Mathilde Mahler, Juliane Stolberg -
Project Manager
Nicolas Gaudard -
Collaborators
Camille Gaven, Linna Lay, Thaïs de Roquemaurel -
Client
Mairie de Passy (74) -
Execution Company
COTEC -
Contractor
GFC Construction -
Budget
5.2 M€ excl. VAT -
Area
2800.0 m2 -
Project Year
2009 -
Photographs
"Although unusually set within the site, the building subtly blends in with the surroundings. With its long timber roof, it creates a new horizon, a cut-out silhouette that forms a huge sculpture on the scale of the landscape. In this way, the project takes on a symbolic, contemporary dimension.
Walking about under the roof, the visitor discovers not one, but two places. Starting out from a central covered plaza, the building spreads out on one side into an activity room, and on the other into a youth club offering all kinds of activities. There is plenty of room to move around, with extra spaces to be used freely. And regularly-spaced door and window openings let in natural daylight, with broad eaves providing shade.
‘Pixelisation’ of the openings and the signs creates superimpositions that supply a link between the natural and constructed elements. So this cultural venue ensures that indoors and outdoors are placed on the same footing, and hence future users with nature.”
