A+ Architecture to design new Scène Campagne cultural facility in Cornillon, Southern France
By Bustler Editors|
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2013
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French firm A+ Architecture has just been announced as the first-prize winner of the "Scène Campagne" competition. Led by the Communauté de Communes de Valcézard, A+Architecture's winning proposal will soon be realized into a new cultural, economical, and social facility for the countryside village of Cornillon in Southern France.
Completion of the € 4.1 million (about $5.6 million) project is scheduled for July 2015.
Below, you can read more about the project and take a look at some images we received from the architects.
"Scène Campagne* is an ambitious project, a real human and cultural adventure. It constitutes a milestone in the history of Cornillon and the Communauté d’Agglomération du Gard Rhodanien who imagined this project as a place for people to meet, interact and more than anything, a project that brings culture and performing arts in a village, in the middle of the countryside."
"The site of the project is amazing, close to the village downtown, but far enough to offer the building an unspoilt and untouched site. We are in the middle of the lands, the trees, it is a natural environment that still has the power to inspire any creative concept one can think of. Part of a much bigger picture, the integration had to be delicate and flawless to accompagny the future of the Centre for Rural Excellence. A new scale is defined, it adapts itself to the new facility, and solves the challenges and stakes at work for Cornillon, different from those of the city downtown, whilst respecting the environment. Every detail, angle, shape and medium used assert the values and ambitions of our client, they are designed to give Cornillon, its region and people a singular voice on the international performing arts stage. More than anywhere, the project must be sensitive, simple yet creative and innovative."
"All details were carefully treated to offer a gentle and nice circulation, from the parking lot towards the building’s public plaza. The project is magnified and staged, it enhances the very essence of the site. Future visitors, entrepreneur and artists will arrive in a preserved landscape, where they will be able to wander, discover and become actors of a place to interact with each other in a local context of unique and great exception. The lines of the project then extend those of the existing landscape."
"Vines ponctuate the way onto the cultural economical and social oriented facility. They are still growing, and alongside vernacular plants, they protect from the sun and help create an atypical and magic atmosphere, it opens a sustainable and respectful dialogue with the surrounding landscape it inspires itself from A long planted alley, that consists of groves, other plants of varying height invite to progress towards Scène Campagne whilst dicovering its richness and diversity. In the middle of the trees, a pure volume appears, and the lines drawing the project, also define a new human scale. From the details to the general volumetry, we aimed at making this cultural project the true extension of the semi-urban and natural fabric, thus enhancing it."
"...From the reception, the built space and close surroundings are one. All facades are specific. On the main one, visible from the highway, a graphic stylized tree latticework takes place. It signs the building and participates to its identity.
With the hall, it draws on the floor poetic and lyric shadows with the sun path. It contributes to the elegance of interior design and let it evolve and offer several ambiances during day and night, using nature as the last material building the project..."
"Following the natural slope of site, a platform lays down the foundations and design a new urbanity at the heart of nature. The technical platform, made of stones of Vers regroups accompanying premises, offices that protect the public areas and parvis from the winds. As for the first material, the stones of Vers, a dimension stone, known for hardening in the air, are part of our history. Since Roman times, it was used to build aqueducts, castles, the Pont du Gard for instance, and today it remains a noble material for contemporary architecture ; such as wineries, social housing or education equipments."
"All areas are optimized for create quality spaces. A mezzanine appear, it overlooks the reception and the duality between building and nature show by scanning a 180° view. As for the performing hall itself, new technics in terms of acoustic comfort, visibility to ensures optimum shows and performances. The offices also benefits from the close relationship with nature and are thoroughly studies to be protected from winds and allow intimacy [...] We believe this simplicity allows adaptability, easy use, it helps people take ownership of a project and allow the equipment to endure through the decades.
Our project lays down gently and delicately in the middle of the Gard lands, a privileged scenery to shelter a brand new cultural economical and social facility."
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All images courtesy of A+ Architecture.
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