Mulinu Vivu - Low-energy Nature Center
MULINU VIVU - LOW-ENERGY NATURE CENTER
Damien Antoni architecte
ARCHITECTS
Damien Antoni architecte
ARCHITECTE
Damien Antoni
PHOTOS
Stéphane Guiraud (15)
STATUS
Built
AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
YEAR
2015
LOCATION
France
TYPE
Commercial › Exhibition Center
Cultural ›, Cultural Center
Educational ›, Other
Government + Health › Community Center, Industrial › Power Plan
On the island of Corsica, a former watermill and its surroundings are converted into an free ecological nature center used as a base for meetings, hiking and swimming.
It also offers an educational landscape that explores connections between energy and water, past and present.A micro-hydro turbine provides electricity for the site.
Built to reach energetical self-sufficiency, the construction is made of local Laricio pine, sweet chestnut tree, and indigenous stone from the site.
The embodied energy used to build this project is 12,000 kWh, so that's 14 times less than a coxnventional family house.
