Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis Living Centre
- department: Alpes-Maritimes
- Municipality: Valbonne
- naming: Sophia Antipolis Life Centre
- address: place Méjanes
- authors: Pierre FAUROUX, E. BERNEGGER, Bruno KELLER, E. QUAGLIA (architects)
- date: 1988-1989
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites (CRPS) du 15 March 2007
The Sophia-Antipolis technopole, spread over several municipalities, brings together higher education and research institutions, as well as the headquarters of large companies. In 1986, Pierre Fauroux obtained, following a competition launched by the municipality of Valbonne, the contract for the creation of a place of worship and an annexed town hall, all on the same plot, due to a lack of available land.
The spatial constraint leads the architect to design an original system of gigogne volumes, allowing, by superimposing the functions, to keep them separate from each other. Modernity and symbolism manage to mingle in the post-modern approach of the architect. The building has a wedding hall and offices on the first level, supporting the place of worship, but the accesses are independent. The whole is based on a rigorous geometry, which mixes references, especially to the Paleo-Christian basilica, whether religious or civic. The decors are sober, using essentially plays of light and polychrome, between the clarity of the concrete and marble of Almeria and the black of Volvic lava.
- Editor: Eve Roy, drac paca crmh, 2006
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