Article source: ATELIER MARTEL

The site is located between pastures and activity areas in the semi-urban fringe located at the outskirts of the small town of Dommartin-lès-Toul. It extends on a gentle slope in front of the parking of the former American hospital and opens up to the panorama of the Moselle valley.

The value system based on which historical cities have been built has been substituted by the logic of traffic flow and lower cost. And even if it is unable to produce any urban quality, the so called “activity area” continues to be, most of the time, the place of work of contemporary architects, as it is where the cities expand and develop. At the same time, these unrestrained city fringes represent a source of imagination for the architects, a comparator, a particular landscape, extremely contemporary, hence fascinating, and therefore; able to convey emotions and memories.

Image Courtesy © Mayanna von Ledebur

• Architects: ATELIER MARTEL
• Project: EPILPSY RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME
• Location: Dommartin-lès-Toul, 54200, France
• Photography: Mayanna von Ledebur
• General contractor: O.H.S. de Lorraine
• Project manager: atelier Martel; BET Egis Bâtiments
• Mis¬sion: Base + OPC et SSI
• Artistic collaboration: Mayanna von Ledebur
• Structural work: PEDUZZI BATIMENT
• Exterior joinery: WUCHER
• Interior joinery : G.V.A.
• Area (SHAB): 3 200 m²
• Construction cost (HT): 5,2 M€
• Calendar: Study 2011/12, construction 2013/2015

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