Article source: Agence Bernard Bühler

You might say there was nothing original about an estate made up of small timber-clad houses in the heart of the Landes. And yet the road that leads to it is strewn with fragments of the so-called “built environment”:unfinished estates that seem to begin and end nowhere, streets that are too wide, roundabouts, and low-lying houses whose walls are rendered in colours that beggar definition.

Image Courtesy © Vincent Monthiers

• Architects: Agence Bernard Bühler
• Project: Pellegari
• Location: St Pierre du Mont, France
• Photography: Vincent Monthiers
• Program: 80 logements PLS à destination des familles des agents du ministère de la justice – construction en bois avec ,  démarche HQE
• Client: COMMUNAUTE D’AGGLOMERATION DU MARSAN
• Project management team: Agence Bernard Bühler
• Consulting engineers: ITH
• Energy performance of building: RT 2005 -20%
• Design: Avril 2007 / Novembre 2008
• Delivery: Octobre 2009
• Net plan area: 5270 m² SHAB
• Total building cost: (€ HT) 5 800 000 € HT hors VRD et espaces verts
• Software used: Autocad