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Architects: Damien Antoni architecte
- Area: 42 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Stéphane Guiraud
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Text description provided by the architects. A low-energy nature center.
On the island of Corsica, a former watermill and its surroundings are converted into an free ecological nature center used as a base for meetings, hiking and swimming. It also offers an educational landscape that explores connections between energy and water, past and present.
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A micro-hydro turbine provides electricity for the site. Built to reach energetical self-sufficiency, the construction is made of local Laricio pine, sweet chestnut tree, and indigenous stone from the site.
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The embodied energy used to build this project is 12,000 kWh, so that's 14 times less than a conventional family house.
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