科西嘉岛生态自然中心

Firm： Damien Antoni architecte

Type： Commercial › Exhibition Center Cultural › Cultural Center Educational › Other Government + Health › Community Center Industrial › Power Plant

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2015

SIZE： 0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET： $10K - 50K

Photos： Stéphane Guiraud (15)

On the island of Corsica, a former watermill and its surroundings are converted into an free ecological nature center used as a base for meetings, hiking and swimming. It also offers an educational landscape that explores connections between energy and water, past and present. A micro-hydro turbine provides electricity for the site. Built to reach energetical self-sufficiency, the construction is made of local Laricio pine, sweet chestnut tree, and indigenous stone from the site.

The embodied energy used to build this project is 12,000 kWh, so that's 14 times less than a conventional family house.

Copyright Damien Antoni, architecte. Photographs Stéphane Guiraud, photographer.