By Cristian Aguilar

• Architects: Damien Antoni architecte
• Location: Pietracorbara, France
• Area: 42.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Stéphane Guiraud

• Partners: with Gregory Joye, architect-contractor
• Outdoors Area: 1600 sq m
• Client: Petra Viva association
• Cost: €49,000

© Stéphane Guiraud

From the architect. A low-energy nature center.

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.

© Stéphane Guiraud

Elevation

© Stéphane Guiraud

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.

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

© Stéphane Guiraud

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