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SAINT-HILAIRE DU-HARCOUËT MEDIA CENTER
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Saint-Hilaire-Du-Harcouët's new Media Center sets in an exceptional
historical and urban context. We conceived it as an extension of the
surrounding urban morphology. We designed the building as low as possible to
respect the historical context and partially integrated it in the ground. This
strategy allows to requalify the plaza recently realized by the city at the
level of the South Garden. The low terrace, which was used only as a space of
circulation is now a place of interaction between the media library and the
park. This low volume is aligned with the houses at the bottom of the church’s
hill. The project implements local materials, such as the ocre schist stone, of
the same type than the one of the church. The stretched out windows of the
project are inspired by the singular proportions and the flaring of the windows
of the church, which was taken as a reference building for our project. South
side, the media center is conceived as a long window giving an open view on the
landscape, on the church and the buildings around.
The building structure is constituted by an on site cast concrete walls
covered with freestanding stones. The media center is for us a place where the
natural light has an essential role and is placed in the center of the spaces
designed. It contributes to create a place of exchange, turned to other
disciplines and different cultures. This project is opened to the city thanks
to wide surfaces glazed on the ground floor. The first floor is also conceived
and implanted to take the most advantage of natural energies and limit its
dependence to the fossil fuels.
The spaces of the media center are directly opened on their immediate
environment and protected by a double glass skin covered with a metallic screen
which pattern is inspired by the rosette of the church. This device allows to
create a pleasant place to read and work. Our project stages a work on the
thickness of facades (distance between “brise-soleil “and glazed wall, spacing
of blades) with a work on overhangs of the facade so as to create a porosity, a
series of space of rich transitions between the inside and the outside of the
building.
historical and urban context. We conceived it as an extension of the
surrounding urban morphology. We designed the building as low as possible to
respect the historical context and partially integrated it in the ground. This
strategy allows to requalify the plaza recently realized by the city at the
level of the South Garden. The low terrace, which was used only as a space of
circulation is now a place of interaction between the media library and the
park. This low volume is aligned with the houses at the bottom of the church’s
hill. The project implements local materials, such as the ocre schist stone, of
the same type than the one of the church. The stretched out windows of the
project are inspired by the singular proportions and the flaring of the windows
of the church, which was taken as a reference building for our project. South
side, the media center is conceived as a long window giving an open view on the
landscape, on the church and the buildings around.
The building structure is constituted by an on site cast concrete walls
covered with freestanding stones. The media center is for us a place where the
natural light has an essential role and is placed in the center of the spaces
designed. It contributes to create a place of exchange, turned to other
disciplines and different cultures. This project is opened to the city thanks
to wide surfaces glazed on the ground floor. The first floor is also conceived
and implanted to take the most advantage of natural energies and limit its
dependence to the fossil fuels.
The spaces of the media center are directly opened on their immediate
environment and protected by a double glass skin covered with a metallic screen
which pattern is inspired by the rosette of the church. This device allows to
create a pleasant place to read and work. Our project stages a work on the
thickness of facades (distance between “brise-soleil “and glazed wall, spacing
of blades) with a work on overhangs of the facade so as to create a porosity, a
series of space of rich transitions between the inside and the outside of the
building.
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