Le Potager Extraordinaire Center
Le Potager Extraordinaire Center
Guinée et Potin Architects
ARCHITECTS
Guinée Et Potin Architects
LEAD TEAM
Hervé Potin & Anne-flore Guinée
MANUFACTURERS
Joris Ide, Noir De Bois
DESIGN TEAM
Guinée Et Potin Architects
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Guillaume Sevin
PHOTOGRAPHS
Stéphane Chalmeau
AREA
1150 M²
YEAR
2023
LOCATION
France
CATEGORY
Urbanism, Landscape
The project aims to transform the Centre Beautour, Biodiversity Discovery Centre, a project opened in 2013, and develop it into an educational and tourist park scheduled to open in summer 2023: Le Potager Extraordinaire.
The theme of this new leisure park is agricultural, domestic and vegetable biodiversity.
By taking into account the sunlight requirements inherent to market gardening, the path takes advantage of the characteristics of the site and preserves the pre-existing balance as much as possible.
The aim of the project is to immerse visitors in the collections of the Potager Extraordinaire and the richness of the host site.
The question of the impact of visitor traffic on the site's ecological environments is central to the planning of the various areas.
Using the « ERC » method (avoid, reduce, compensate), the project aims to limit heavy interventions in wetlands as much as possible,
but also to undertake compensatory work, enabling the ecological enrichment of certain areas (setting up defenses, creating optimal conditions, etc.).
The "Potager Extraordinaire" park has a fun and educational vocation, presenting a vast collection of edible plants, displayed in different themed gardens.
Visitors can choose between guided or self-guided tours. In addition to this collection park, the site includes a plot of land for organic market gardening.
Buildings to serve the Park - In addition to the existing building, comprising the Maison de Georges Durand and its thatched extension, the new park houses a working farm, market greenhouses, and an "ecological" greenhouse.
The architectural approach to redevelopment applies bioclimatic principles: - Low impact on the landscape through materials (thatch, wood, raw earth).
Passive use of the sun's energy in winter and protection in summer.
Use of a "dry" construction method (wooden frame/carpentry/flooring) to ensure a clean building site and preservation of the site,
The buildings created are therefore timber-framed, wrapped in black-tinted and translucent cladding, taking up the codes of rural architecture and reinterpreting them in a contemporary way.
The "ecological" greenhouse is made of wood-frame straw and rammed earth rendering, oriented North/South in a simple bioclimatic design, to take advantage of solar gain and simple management of natural ventilation through hydraulically opening windows.
