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Architects: Mas Architecture
- Area: 740 m²
- Year: 2014
Text description provided by the architects. The main challenge for the conception of this youth facility located along the river Vence, was obviously to magnify the imposing perspective on the surrounding mountains: l'Aiguille de Quaix and the col de la Charmette. So in order to reveal this scenery the building had no other option but to be discreet and the choice was made to bury it partially into the ground. And thus this building arises from the ground and coils up around its roof, covered with a shaggy vegetal whig. The project then displays two different faces. From the street, it gives the impression of merging into the undulations of the site, whereas from the park it reads like a detachment from the ground revealing its various stratifications. If the first façade is deliberately meant to be discreet, the second one is clad in its colorfully striped dress, animated with playful openings. It stands as a revealing machine, displaying the landscape with its varied framings on the façade; as many paintings changing to the rhythm of the four seasons.
