| Botanical Gardens in Bordeaux |
(Bordeaux, France) |
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Resulting from a prize winning landscape project, the scheme consists of a series
of greenhouses, "boxes", and "pebbles".
The first elements, designed as "glass blocks" act as the building’s
principal frontage: the window of the Botanical Gardens. Simple in volume, they
dominate the entire scheme with a height of 8.40 meters. They shelter three different
climates and describe (in terms of scale and volume) the different particularities
of the various plant species. The timber skeletal structure offers a great flexibility
to the volumes thereby capable of adapting to eventual changes in programmatic
requirements.
The Northern facade of this “City of plants”, irregular and set back
from the street, underlines the strong image of the greenhouses.
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