Heintz Georges - HKy architectes

MOLLKIRCH Bas-Rhin
Compétition, Public Library,
kindergarten , primary school, after-school.

We designed the project on the rooftop of a Gazi building with a direct view to the Parthenon of the Acropolis in a 2 weeks workshop in March. The open view over the city facing south became the landmark of this project obsessed by the inside/outside game and the 270 degree glance over the valley and forested slopes of maritime and sylvester pinus.
A schoolchildren’s belveder.
Sketched with 3 delightful young gold architects (Zineb Haouach, Charline Lesage, Caroline Will) the entrance post has become an elegant Caryatid of turned wood, a replica also of the concrete homage to Madame in the King villa. The street level is in a hybrid frame of local wood and steel gold . The green planted roof is in wood panels. The garden level is in concrete because of the water runoff on the slope. As in the Villa Ada, the main decision was to throw the building into the void of the slope by reinterpreting the typology of the Malaparte rather than that of a Neutra parallel to the slope. Perhaps it was the freedom of a Craig Elwood with the Hunt house of 57 that pushed me again into this more daring opportunity? In any case, this device inscribes the public facility and the courtyard like a belvedere in its topography, in its full geographical mountain nature.