musée aux lucs-sur-boulogne

This iconic building, green and bronze, plays with monumentalism features by opening itself on the surrounding landscape. Spectacular, and yet discreet, secret. A wide green roof melts into the meadow, in the winter, in the summer, sometimes wild, sometimes low. We discover the museum when walking into and across it, before noticing the façades. Building a history museum in Lucs-sur-Boulogne was an important challenge. The paradoxical, yet stimulating, desire to create on a territorial scale an attractive cultural merging with the landscape is embraced by the beauty of the site : a delicate composition of bocage and rivers. The building is an expressive and discreet artefact embedded in the original landscape.

infos
architect
plan01
place
Allée Paul Bazin, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne (85)
France
description
Historial de Vendée
client
CONSEIL GENERAL DE VENDÉE
surface
6500 m² shon
cost
8.6 M€ ht
calendar
design
delivery
team

PLAN01 (architects) ;
MICHEL JOYAU (partners) ;
PAYSAGES ET LUMIERES (landscape) ;
ACORA (scenography) ;
AREST (structure) ;
DELTA FLUIDES (fluids) ;
ECB (economist) ;
CAPRI (acoustics) ;
LA BONNE MERVEILLE (graphic design)

photographers

Stéphane Chalmeau
Frédéric Delangle

texture
program
environment