Drawing Gallery over the french hillside. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
02/03/2021.
[Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade] France
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Château La Coste is a winery and an important modern art center for the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France. Against this unique context, the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is a 120 m² gallery space that rises cantilevered.
This elegant project of industrial nature is positioned as a sculpture within the landscape, responding to an artistic context that goes hand in hand with other pavilions such as the one projected by Renzo Piano or other great architects such as Tadao Ando, and Jean Nouvel.
This elegant project of industrial nature is positioned as a sculpture within the landscape, responding to an artistic context that goes hand in hand with other pavilions such as the one projected by Renzo Piano or other great architects such as Tadao Ando, and Jean Nouvel.
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Photograph by James Reeve, Stéphane Aboudaram
Site plan. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Project floor plan. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Section. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Section. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Structure. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
Sketch. Château La Coste by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP)
The Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners (RSHP) project rises 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the densely wooded landscape. The structure covered with satin steel with a natural finish has delicate joints and elements that result in a light gallery.
The nature of the cantilever, combined with the highly seismic characteristics of the general region, gives the building the characteristic of employing a bridge-type construction and engineering techniques where the orange steel outer girders taper as the construction floats towards the cliff.
The nature of the cantilever, combined with the highly seismic characteristics of the general region, gives the building the characteristic of employing a bridge-type construction and engineering techniques where the orange steel outer girders taper as the construction floats towards the cliff.
Description of project by Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners (RSHP)
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) with Château La Coste are pleased to present the completion of Richard Rogers’ final work begun before his retirement from practice in June 2020. Château La Coste, a 500-acre area of outstanding natural beauty is an internationally renowned destination for art and architecture.
Set in Château La Coste’s vineyard, the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is a 120m2 gallery space that cantilevers off a hillside amongst trees above a historic Roman track, overlooking the ancient ruin of La Quille and the Luberon National Park. It joins the Château La Coste’s Architectural & Art Walk, amongst pavilions by renowned architects including, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel.
In 2011, Richard was invited to choose a place in the landscape that spoke directly to him and was given the freedom to design a gallery that would live there. The remote and unusual location selected required a bespoke design and fabrication. Designed to have the lightest of touches on the area and its ecology, the building cantilevers out 27-metres to a point 18-metres above the heavily wooded site. Its delicate joints and expressed elements support the lightweight extruded gallery, clad in a naturally finished satin steel, softly mirroring the surrounding landscape.
The external orange steel beams taper as the construction floats outwards into mid-air. Where the building touches the ground, it does so subtly, belying the robust engineering below ground that supports the structure from just one end. Industrial in nature but with elegant handcrafted details, the building is itself a sculpture in this landscape.
You leave the terra firma of the old Roman track and transition across a lightweight bridge to the cantilevering gallery. Walking through the support structure it is here where the visitor experiences a sensation of almost floating. The gallery’s single rectangular room frames a view of the landscape through the 5x4m opening at its furthest end, beyond extends a terrace, above which the eaves gently jut out buffering the light between inside and out.
The physics of the building, cantilevering as it is in combination with the region’s seismic activity, requires bridge type engineering and construction techniques. The building and its materials needed to be flexible. The cables at the entrance that ground the structure contract and expand, sensitive even to the local climate’s fluctuating temperatures. The poured resin gallery floor flexes in harmony with the structure.
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Design team
Local architect.- Demaria Architecture.
Collaborators
Structural engineer.- Lang Engineering Consultancy. Project manager.- Rainey + Best. Steel Works.- Bysteel. Building enclosure.- Setanta Construction. Specialist engineering.- Hasson Engineering Solutions. Local Engineer.- ATES. Internal fit out.- SCEA Château La Coste, IDME France, ACM France.
Client
Chàteau La Coste/Paddy Mc Killen.
Area
120 sqm.
Dates
2020.
Location
Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France.
Photography
RICHARD ROGERS
Richard Rogers. (Florencia, July 23, 1933 - London, December 18, 2021) Since founding the practice in 1977, Richard Rogers has gained international reknown as an architect and urbanist. He is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, recipient of the 1985 RIBA Gold Medal and the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia). He was knighted in 1991, made a life peer in 1996 and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2008.
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