![Atelier Fernandez & Serres, Cour et Jardin, Vertou, Nantes, France Atelier Fernandez & Serres, Cour et Jardin, Vertou, Nantes, France](/content/dam/domusweb/en/architecture/2015/12/28/atelier_fernandez_serres_cour_et_jardin/domus-02-cour-et-jardin.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
Everything starts with a walk, a stroll in the city center of Vertou with its steepness and prospects. The project is an extension of this geography, a rebuild soil that as to turn around and form the building, a man-made geography. The equipment is a “fun machine” to see and receive.
The basin and the court, a true outdoor room of the building, which welcome visitors entering this “Golden Cream” stone monolith. Roof is evocating Vertou’s roofs. Then the user find a bright, pure interior, staged by plays of boxes wich contains program and large frames opening on the landscape of Vertou.
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Cour et Jardin, Vertou, Nantes, France
Program: cultural centre
Architects: Atelier Fernandez & Serres
Client: Municipality of Vertou
Area: 1,700 sqm
Completion: 2014