The unique domain La Cabotte is located on a hillside surrounded by vineyards and woods looking at the Mont Ventoux appearing on the horizon.
h2o architectes: La Cabotte
Looking at the Mont Ventoux, La Cabotte designed by h2o architects is a wooden pavilion for a wine-grower which evocates the local vernacular architecture.
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- 13 June 2014
- Mondragon
The domain is strongly involved in the respectful local farming and wishes to reunite in one same place three functions: a place to welcome visitors with a space dedicated to wine-tasting, an office and washrooms for the wine growers.
The office decided to take into account two elements to best respond to the above programme: the presence of the landscape and an evocation of the local vernacular architecture.
The project is based on a star-plan with three branches, each one corresponding to one of the functions listed above. The structure and the wooden envelope include the furniture elements for the wine-tasting space and the office. This gives a real thickness to the walls and recalls the original constructive principles of the cabotte.
The unusual plan allows for a central area or core from which the office suggested, thanks to wide openings, a double orientation onto the landscape. These openings frame and dramatize the important elements of the geography (vineyards, Mont Ventoux etc.).
From the outside, the volume has a traditional double-sloping roof for each branch of the building. There is a contemporary touch in the play between the line of the roof and the line of the wall which don’t always overlap in the same place.
La Cabotte, Mondragon, France
Program: Wine-tasting pavilion and office of a wine producer
Architects: h2o architectes
Quantity surveyor: Cabinet Virtz
Local architect for construction phase assistance: Nicolas Rappez
Area: 58 sqm
Completion: December 2013