Sitting on the promontory at the confluence of its accesses, the new museum is a lighthouse or a luminous watchtower in the night. Its openwork wall reveals a subtle interior articulation that frees up corridors telescoping fragments of the horizon at each level. Its position overhanging the bay creates a new maritime and urban landmark that focuses the approaching route, at the end of which the mountain, sea and park unfold without limit. This juxtaposition is created by breaking the project into three parts: the lighthouse of knowledge, the vault of memory and the cultural park, linked together by thematic corridors. These corridors, chosen sparingly, introduce the constituent elements of the museum into the landscape and the discovery of the landscape into the museum. In order to create a gradation of perspectives and sensory emphases that punctuate the itinerary, the corridors are of four types. First, there is the radiating bridge of the park that links the cultural sites (agora, quay, hangar, museum) and integrates the riverside promenade, creating a sequence marked by the intimate discovery of the park. Then there are the interstitial walkways created in the residual space between the hermetic steel case of the exhibition rooms and the peripheral openwork envelope of cedar slats of the lighthouse. They open onto observatories that focus the viewpoints towards the bay and the mountain. They are also, at the top of the lighthouse, vegetated terraces where the ground seems to spring up and offer a peripheral view in osmosis with the elements. Finally, it is the revelation of the bowels of the museum through the windowed wall of the passageway embedded in the slope, linking the old museum (or memory vault) and the base of the lighthouse.
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The jury underlined the originality and courage of the proposed architectural parti. This project stood out for its conceptual approach of a "cultural lighthouse", an element that contributes to the landscape and leaves a great intelligibility of reading between the two buildings, the old and the new. To the plastic quality of the proposed object, is juxtaposed a development of the site of great generosity in its public spaces.
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