IPAS Architectes SA EPF HES SIA

Fisherman Workshop

Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes

FISHERMAN WORKSHOP

Ipas Architectes

ARCHITECTS
Ipas Architectes

LOCATION
Cortaillod, Switzerland

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Houses

YEAR
2010

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This project presents an opportunity to radically question the boundaries, to write a poem adventurous and invigorating on the juxtaposition of unusual situations: a mixture of professional and private lives, a vital and essential complicity between the fisherman and lake, a relationship between the intimate and delicate fish product and the lover of fresh ...

Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes

Thrown as a bridge linking the workshop at the horizon of Lake part of Cortaillod near Neuchatel. Inside the object, a production line that leads the fish into the consumer basket: boathouse, workshop fishing and fish processing, retail space.

His track divides the board instead favoring a space that whispers, welcomes the nature and intimacy of family life, and the other side of the extravagant disorder related to the plurality of tools required for activity fishing .

Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes

The object takes the form of a net, expanding and compressing according to the logic of the production line, depending on the use of space it houses. 

The surface of the facade operates the paradox of the visible-invisible light comes through a perforated and corrugated iron where the background color comes in a thick embroidery is bright, just merge with the surrounding nature.

Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes


Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes
Fisherman Workshop
© Ipas Architectes


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IPAS Architectes SA EPF HES SIA
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