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Moby Dick
Bordeaux, France
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Moby Dick
Bordeaux, France
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
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To shelter boat repair and construction, the studio imagined the Bassins à flot new nautical hub as an urban interface that dialogues with the large scales of the maritime territory and plays with the multiple perceptions of it.
A BORDER, AN OPENING.
Located to the north-west of the Bassins, the project site is both a boundary and an opening.
To the north, on the edge of vague parking lots, a dense automobile network, wild advertising hoardings, a fast-food restaurant, an old railway line and the red auto-bridge, the site is confronted with the territory of the city entrance, a crazy and blurred space, undefined and yet so common on the outskirts of our cities. To the south, it lies at the bottom of the Bassins. It stands back and offers a unique view of the seascape. Located at the right distance, the site allows us to embrace in a single glance the existing and new lines of this skyline in the making. This provides the ideal panorama of the Bassins à flot.
THE BASSINS À FLOT ACTIVITY.
Moby Dick features a long volume designed to gather the historical nautical activities of Bordeaux, namely the people who care for, repair, and build boats. To highlight their work, the studio decided to design the most beautiful workshops possible to evoke wind, sailing, and the history of the basins. The structure of Moby Dick is based on timber frames, arranged on a series of poles distributed according to the necessary surfaces for each activity. The large openings and significant heights under the structures allow the belly of Moby Dick to swallow a multitude of boats of all shapes and sizes.
AN INTERFACE.
To the north, Moby Dick will be the maritime opening leading to the Bassins à flot. In contrast to the ultra-urban and mineral flows of the city entrance, Moby Dick will present a minimalist architecture as a new urban interface to introduce the territory of the basins. A smooth facade, simple as a blank page, reinterprets the graphics of the nautical alphabet to signal the diversity of the various activities taking place in the program.
OPTICAL BLUR.
To the south, we face the basins. The panoramic viewpoint of the location concentrates the territory in the gaze like the cinemascope screen of a film. Moby Dick will then be imagined as the concentration of the basins’ spirit in its architecture. Drawing inspiration from the military camouflage Razzle Dazzle used by the Allies during the two world wars, the metallic facade cuts and compresses its volume by blurring the physical limits of its shapes. Moby Dick becomes an optical compression, visible from afar, a graphic architecture to signal its activity but also a visual artifact to better disappear into its environment. The use of such a motif is also a necessary response to the historical and oppressive presence of the Submarine Base.
THE LANDSCAPE PRISM.
Due to its location, Moby Dick is part of the large urban project by articulating the city entrance to this moving maritime territory. To the north, a new interface expresses its positioning as an introduction to the basins, and to the south, a prism, like the contemporary and subjective compression of the Bassins à flot territory, akin to the eye that embraces the panorama from this site in a single glance.
The studio elua® extends the skyline of the Basins by adding Moby Dick, an ultra-contextual architecture, and places the man’s hand at the center of its program, to enhance the historical activity of the site and envision the nautical hub as a promise for the future.
A BORDER, AN OPENING.
Located to the north-west of the Bassins, the project site is both a boundary and an opening.
To the north, on the edge of vague parking lots, a dense automobile network, wild advertising hoardings, a fast-food restaurant, an old railway line and the red auto-bridge, the site is confronted with the territory of the city entrance, a crazy and blurred space, undefined and yet so common on the outskirts of our cities. To the south, it lies at the bottom of the Bassins. It stands back and offers a unique view of the seascape. Located at the right distance, the site allows us to embrace in a single glance the existing and new lines of this skyline in the making. This provides the ideal panorama of the Bassins à flot.
THE BASSINS À FLOT ACTIVITY.
Moby Dick features a long volume designed to gather the historical nautical activities of Bordeaux, namely the people who care for, repair, and build boats. To highlight their work, the studio decided to design the most beautiful workshops possible to evoke wind, sailing, and the history of the basins. The structure of Moby Dick is based on timber frames, arranged on a series of poles distributed according to the necessary surfaces for each activity. The large openings and significant heights under the structures allow the belly of Moby Dick to swallow a multitude of boats of all shapes and sizes.
AN INTERFACE.
To the north, Moby Dick will be the maritime opening leading to the Bassins à flot. In contrast to the ultra-urban and mineral flows of the city entrance, Moby Dick will present a minimalist architecture as a new urban interface to introduce the territory of the basins. A smooth facade, simple as a blank page, reinterprets the graphics of the nautical alphabet to signal the diversity of the various activities taking place in the program.
OPTICAL BLUR.
To the south, we face the basins. The panoramic viewpoint of the location concentrates the territory in the gaze like the cinemascope screen of a film. Moby Dick will then be imagined as the concentration of the basins’ spirit in its architecture. Drawing inspiration from the military camouflage Razzle Dazzle used by the Allies during the two world wars, the metallic facade cuts and compresses its volume by blurring the physical limits of its shapes. Moby Dick becomes an optical compression, visible from afar, a graphic architecture to signal its activity but also a visual artifact to better disappear into its environment. The use of such a motif is also a necessary response to the historical and oppressive presence of the Submarine Base.
THE LANDSCAPE PRISM.
Due to its location, Moby Dick is part of the large urban project by articulating the city entrance to this moving maritime territory. To the north, a new interface expresses its positioning as an introduction to the basins, and to the south, a prism, like the contemporary and subjective compression of the Bassins à flot territory, akin to the eye that embraces the panorama from this site in a single glance.
The studio elua® extends the skyline of the Basins by adding Moby Dick, an ultra-contextual architecture, and places the man’s hand at the center of its program, to enhance the historical activity of the site and envision the nautical hub as a promise for the future.
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