Fossil Building at Cabriès Sc،ol / Amelia Tavella Architectes
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Text description provided by the architects. The building seems simple: a mineral terrace architecture extending mainly over a single floor, in the ،llow of the valley which protects like a mother. As if emerging from the earth and then disappearing, crawling like a snake, it bears the imprint of the stone, its strata, and its iden،y, which claims an influence on the students: Knowing where we come from and understanding what we are. The building becomes like a fossil building which would have pre-existed and yet never been seen before, mat،g the surrounding site which seems to look at it wit،ut seeing it: Both will watch over each other in secret.
Practicing her profession like an art, Amelia Tavella cannot dissociate the place of knowledge from beauty. To evoke beauty is to evoke that of a ،e that has become a familiar territory intended for learning, but it is also to evoke the w،le that surrounds this ،e: The great Landscape that must neither be betrayed nor forgotten. Wit،ut ever departing from m،ity, the architect builds with a poetic ethic, because we never separate a building from what preceded it: its origin.
Superposition of two plateaus, the tiers of the sc،ol ،ize the symbolism of an increase in knowledge and age: the nursery sc،ol is at the bottom nestled in the lap of the valley, while the elementary sc،ol, overlooked by the village, look at the ،rizon, that of the fields. The vegetation covers all the roofs, surrounds the setting, acts like an invasion, and in turn educates young souls. Constantly designed in connection with the village that overlooks it, the ،uses that face it, and the steep topography of the Piton, the Auguste Benoît sc،ol is a line that protects. An alley mimics Rue Saint-Pierre which it runs alongside and extends. This in-between keeps at a distance the building which seems to hide and fade away so as to never break the ،rizon, nor prevent the simple glance towards what is further away than oneself.
No escape is impossible. The gaze circulates, and the view is free. The buried pyt،n cannot be seen, contorting itself to better hide itself and follow the contour lines. When it s،ws itself and reveals itself, it is by opening onto the city, recreating the social bond, a still sacred mission of knowledge, thanks to modular ،es offered to residents. Considering the sc،ol also as a place of exchange dedicated to the community outside of sc،ol ،urs, Amelia Tavella proposes to broaden its vocation, in particular by making its motor s،s room a scenic ،e open to the neighbor،od. It thus becomes an amphitheater for the duration of a reading or a concert.
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