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Architects: M3 Architectes
- Year: 2007
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Photographs:Christof Weber
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Manufacturers: EQUITONE, A+P Kieffer Omnitec, Hubert Schmitt GMBH, Prefalux, S+B Inbau, Seufert-Niklaus GMBH
Text description provided by the architects. A building led by an integrated mastery, with a certain exhilaration: deadlines respected, budgets respected, architectural concept respected, since the first models and stacking slabs - still sheets of cardboard - at the edge of the valley, until the final image, where the room boxes continue to hover slightly over the stack of treatment floors. Completed in 2007, he brought back his harvest of distinctions. One of the architects' favorite comments: ... "Un exemple d’architecture civile qui met l’utilisateur au centre de la conception, la lecture des espaces est claire. Les apports de lumière naturelle construisent une ambiance sereine et permettent d’articuler les fonctions. L’implantation suit une logique ancienne et efficace qu’on retrouve dans les anciens couvents et dans les premiers hôpitaux où le plan présentait des corps de bâtiment alternés par des cours vastes et éclairées en exploitant des circulations essentielles mais magnifiées par les arcs et les voûtes." (Maurizio Cohen)
A rare experience whose success is also due to the quality of the speakers: a client with clear ideas and free hands, with the support of a motivated board of Directors, high quality companies selected following detailed tenders.
The result is offered to patients at the « Centre National de Rééducation Fonctionnelle et de Réadaptation Rehazenter » at a point in their lives where they may unconsciously perceive the comparative architectural qualities of their environment. From day to day, it is the staff, who have adapted to their new surroundings of materials such as exposed concrete, woodwork and glass. They enjoy so the visual tranquility of their workplace.
