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Rodez, France
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Ste Marie Clinic
Rodez, France
We
live in Rodez, the capital of the Aveyron in South-West France.
The original town, built on the summit of a steep outcrop, has now spread to a
neighbouring hill linked by an elegant viaduct.
The
Sainte-Marie Hospital Association, whose headquarters are near Clermont-Ferrand, has long owned
several clinics in southern France,
in particular an important one in Rodez where the writer Antonin Artaud was
hospitalised in the 1940’s. The
buildings of the “asylum”, as it was then called, covered some 40.000 m² on the outskirts of the town.
Screened from the outside world by imposing walls, it was the ghetto of
so-called “lunatics”.
The
director’s aim in choosing us to design the clinic was to erase the
intimidating prison-like image that a psychiatric building so often has had in
the past in the eyes of the public.
Our
project is built on a steep north-facing site and is composed of a psychiatric
clinic with forty bedrooms, a medico-psychological centre and a day hospital,
all centred around a shared set of technical services. The total floor area is 3495m² for a cost of
3 800 000€ H.T. The centre has
been operational since 2007.
The
level of the access road at the top of the site has been extended into a vast
horizontal slab overhanging the site, leaving space below for a covered parking
while also providing a convincing platform for the main construction.
The
originality of the solution proposed stems from the decision to set the most
important part of the project, the forty bedrooms of the clinic, on the
uppermost storey overlooking the tree tops, thus liberating the lower levels
for a more spacious approach to the planning of the medico-psychological centre,
the offices and the technical services on the lower levels.
On this site, which affords sweeping views, I imagined a building whose
striking form would generate, whether viewed from the outside, or experienced
from within, a rich dialogue with the surrounding landscape. By creating many different visuals
situations, the presence of the outside scenery, either through deliberate
framing, or through a careful mise-en-scène,
can be perceived in many different and inhabitual ways. The aim is to give the viewer – every viewer,
including those suffering from depression –new and refreshing perspectives on
an environment previously taken for granted.
The
result is a building full of surprises, where the interplay between the stepped
volumes and open spaces creates a delightfully unconventional environment. That was our architectural as well as our therapeutic
aim; to reach beyond the geometry of urban normality, to help the mildly
depressive patients compose a new vision of the world by confronting them with
a reality that is subtly and stimulatingly different.
live in Rodez, the capital of the Aveyron in South-West France.
The original town, built on the summit of a steep outcrop, has now spread to a
neighbouring hill linked by an elegant viaduct.
The
Sainte-Marie Hospital Association, whose headquarters are near Clermont-Ferrand, has long owned
several clinics in southern France,
in particular an important one in Rodez where the writer Antonin Artaud was
hospitalised in the 1940’s. The
buildings of the “asylum”, as it was then called, covered some 40.000 m² on the outskirts of the town.
Screened from the outside world by imposing walls, it was the ghetto of
so-called “lunatics”.
The
director’s aim in choosing us to design the clinic was to erase the
intimidating prison-like image that a psychiatric building so often has had in
the past in the eyes of the public.
Our
project is built on a steep north-facing site and is composed of a psychiatric
clinic with forty bedrooms, a medico-psychological centre and a day hospital,
all centred around a shared set of technical services. The total floor area is 3495m² for a cost of
3 800 000€ H.T. The centre has
been operational since 2007.
The
level of the access road at the top of the site has been extended into a vast
horizontal slab overhanging the site, leaving space below for a covered parking
while also providing a convincing platform for the main construction.
The
originality of the solution proposed stems from the decision to set the most
important part of the project, the forty bedrooms of the clinic, on the
uppermost storey overlooking the tree tops, thus liberating the lower levels
for a more spacious approach to the planning of the medico-psychological centre,
the offices and the technical services on the lower levels.
On this site, which affords sweeping views, I imagined a building whose
striking form would generate, whether viewed from the outside, or experienced
from within, a rich dialogue with the surrounding landscape. By creating many different visuals
situations, the presence of the outside scenery, either through deliberate
framing, or through a careful mise-en-scène,
can be perceived in many different and inhabitual ways. The aim is to give the viewer – every viewer,
including those suffering from depression –new and refreshing perspectives on
an environment previously taken for granted.
The
result is a building full of surprises, where the interplay between the stepped
volumes and open spaces creates a delightfully unconventional environment. That was our architectural as well as our therapeutic
aim; to reach beyond the geometry of urban normality, to help the mildly
depressive patients compose a new vision of the world by confronting them with
a reality that is subtly and stimulatingly different.
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