- Area: 15 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Corentin Schieb, Aurélie Poirrier
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Manufacturers: ATAO Nantes, La Cale 2 l’île, Serge Ferrari, Woods Plywood
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Lead Architect: Aurélie Poirrier
Text description provided by the architects. Mr. Plocq’s Caballon gives the opportunity to rediscover an almost-forgotten side of the Loire river estuary: that of the naturalists, those adventurous explorers from another time whose rich and unbelievable stories blend the taste of faraway travels to the land’s memory. The project is inspired by real-life Émile Plocq, aka the bird charmer, a local from the Vendée region who supposedly built a ship meant to perform expeditions to the shores of Africa with the help of migrating birds.
