Construction of the Vindrac-Alayrac Culture Center
CONSTRUCTION OF THE VINDRAC-ALAYRAC CULTURE CENTER
Letelier Architectes
DESIGN TEAM
Letellier Architectes
CLIENT
Mairie De Vindrac-Alayrac, Mairie De Vindrac-Alayrac
CATEGORY
Adaptive Reuse, Cultural Center, Historic Preservation
BET FLUIDES
SATEC Ingénierie
AREA
107 m²
With a 15th century church, listed as a historic monument in 1927, the Letellier Architects agency seized this heritage opportunity to design the Vindrac-Alayrac House of Culture to enhance the very nature of the place: to stage its particularity.
To do this, preserving the precious remains (tombs found in the Merovingian cemetery) and beyond, making them the main actors in the scenography of the place was the essence of the project.
Thus, the treatment of the west facade focuses on the integration of these gabled sarcophagi through the reinterpretation of the crude steel funeral niches: a fire facade revealing witnesses of the past.
