- Area: 50 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Giaime Meloni
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Lead Architect: Pierre-Arnaud Descôtes Architecte
Text description provided by the architects. The site proposes a collection of vernacular architectures: an old chapel, a cellar, steps forming a natural amphitheater, old orchards, and terraced gardens. Besides its central position in the village, the place also offers many views on the wine-growing landscape.
The whole presented many singular objects, archipelagos, in their natural context. These architectures already had qualities linked to their anchoring to the site, their history, their traditional conception, and to their hyper materiality.
However the link between the architectural elements and their environment existed only partially, the site had suffered many transformations without consultation, making it lose its link to the landscape.
Working on memory, our proposal gives these entities their visibility and their structuring role within the village with sobriety. The chapel regains its autonomy, recessed extensions are grafted to it, assigning it new uses (exhibitions, banquet space, kitchen, storage, sanitary facilities, winter garden). The cellar is rehabilitated, and its new floor is extended to the place; the limit of the place is treated by a concrete seat which draws its end, inviting visitors into the site and allowing them to embrace the whole picture, in a contemplative way.
