Eco-lodges_les Echasses / Patrick Arotcharen Architecte

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Saubion, France
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Eco-lodges_les Echasses  / Patrick Arotcharen Architecte - Waterfront, Forest
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Text description provided by the architects. Right in the heart of the Landes region of France, this hotel installation interacts with a landscaped tableau where human intervention is in dialogue with nature. The first stage of the project consists in transforming the existing lake into a landscape of dunes crowned with slender pines: the dredged sand is heaped up around the edges of the lake in order to create little bays where the bungalows lie. Built in wood, these are characterised by a notably prismatic arrangement which favours openings onto the lake whilst conserving the privacy of the occupants.

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The pavilion’s oblique lines, as well as the reception building’s, form a contrast with the rounded dunes and the linear canopy behind. The harmony between the constructions and the environment is not built on imitation: the architecture and the site are defined by a contrasting homology. Placed over the water that mirrors them, these small, autonomous units are a point in the landscape and allow nature to form a continuous milieu. Different pathways snake between the hills and, through the variety of perspectives on offer on the site, this feeling is confirmed.

Eco-lodges_les Echasses  / Patrick Arotcharen Architecte - Forest
© Mathieu Choiselat

Product Description:

The project was developed with the aim of using as many local resources as possible (maritime pines_Landes Forest). Constructed in timber and steel, the material elements respond to the desire to reduce the architectural impact within this landscape.

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Address:40230 Saubion, France

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Cite: "Eco-lodges_les Echasses / Patrick Arotcharen Architecte" 19 Jan 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/803248/eco-lodges-les-echasses-patrick-arotcharen-architecte> ISSN 0719-8884

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