client

Communauté de communes du Pays de Weppe

 

architect

Hugues Fontenas

assistant architect

Nolwenn Caillard

 

museography

atelier à Kiko

landscape

OLM

engineering

ETR (structure and mechanics)

cost surveyor

MDETC

 

floor area

600 m2

 

cost

1 600 000 € HT

 

calendar

2011 – competition

 

programme

Museum commemorating the  Battle of Fromelles,  19 July 1916, where 8500 lives, mostly Australian, were lost in a 24-hour period.

 

design

A rough concrete monolith embedded into the slope of the site.
Main interior elements of the inner museum  correspond to polished metal volumes that emerging from the top of the monolith and facing towards the battlefield horizon.
The lobby,  a bright  and colourful space inside the dark monolith, opens widely onto the Main Street of the village.
The collections, in this introvert volume, are organised around a large panoramic cyclo representing the battlefield, itself actually several kilometres distant from the museum.
A project designed to simplify the construction and promote climate stability.

 

competition images

Kaupunki



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