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Beaume | 2024, Maxime Bergeret, France

Beaume | 2024, Maxime Bergeret, France

Architects: Bancaù Architectes
Lead Architect: Maxime Bergeret
Associate Architects: Marion Sebbane & Gaël Sellier
Client: AFPJR
Photographer: Images ®Anfibio Drawings ®Bancaù Architectes


This project concerns the creation of 10 specialized reception rooms for the AFPJR association, which assists, hosts, and employs people with reduced mobility. On a site hosting several units of this nature, which leads to complexity of access and interface with users who now circulate freely on the site, the decision was therefore quickly focused on two points: favoring the in-situ resource and designing a building minimizing back return within the occupied site.

A duality was therefore formed between two materials, an earth concrete from the excavated soil for the central part, a prefabricated wooden frame for the wings. The reflection carried minimizing the superposition of layers by favoring the exposure of structural elements when possible. The reflection talks about reversibility of the use of the building but also of its evolving nature. The project is adapted to today's needs, but also capable of evolving (new needs or program).


Maxime Bergeret
Maxime Bergeret
Maxime Bergeret

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