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L'Observatoire by CLP Architectes
This woodland observatory by architecture collective CLP Architectes is a patchwork of square wooden panels and windows.
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The structure is one of 20 created for the Archi competition, which invites architects to create temporary huts on sites smaller than 20 square metres in a nature reserve in the district of Muttersholtz.
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Wooden staircases lead up past the first floor to a roof terrace, which provides a panoramic lookout point for surveying the surroundings.
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Sheets of chunky chipboard create deep shelves for storing or displaying small items behind the windows.
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Other observatories we've featured include one for astronomers and another overlooking a stream.
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Here's a project description from CLP Architectes:
This project, realized for the Archi
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With a limited budget of 7000 Euro, the commission obliged us to seek for a precise architecture.
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Due to the temporary character of the pavilion, our first intention was to create a building that could offer a varied experience, using the least materials and formal recourses.
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This intention is translated into a structural system that performs various tasks: the possibility of light, shadow, ventilation and also to provide temporal storage space.
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Ground floor plan - click above for larger image
Our second intention was to conceive an architecture that could enhance and diversify the relationship between the visitor of the pavilion and the surrounding environment.
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First floor plan - click above for larger image
The observatory, then, performs as a medium that is both reduced and enhanced into an optical device.
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Second floor plan - click above for larger image
In an economic sense, the structure permits an open-plan interior, similar to a theatre stage: The interior space is reconstructed again and again with each visitor.
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Section AA - click above for larger image
Seen from the exterior, the pavilion tends to disappear: in the ambiguous nature of its formal limits, a seemingly ordinary object is revealed as a complex interplay of light, images, people and objects.
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Section BB - click above for larger image
The visitor is invited to reflect on this uneasiness.
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North elevation - click above for larger image
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East elevation - click above for larger image
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South elevation - click above for larger image
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West elevation - click above for larger image