Popular restaurant Vork, childcare and offices

They had to take a shabby mansion house and turn it into a ground floor building with three upper storeys, with three different functions: a community kitchen, children's nursery, and offices. What approach did they take? A very simple black and white façade, in keeping with the moulding on the house, the original Corinthian columns and regular spacing of the windows. Sensible and classical? Not so sure about that! Because on the third floor, devoted to the nursery, an ultra-colourful block has been added, covered in 4,500 Autan XL glazed sunscreen baguettes in eleven different colours, in complete contrast to the building as a whole. Arranged according to a smart algorithm that ensures a certain degree of regularity while avoiding monotony, these sunscreen baguettes are a kind of allusion to the multicoloured felt pens used by the children. The triangular tip of this monolithic structure overhangs the lower floors. Although radically different in its treatment, it is, however, completely connected to the essence of the mansion house at the heart of the structure: in fact, thanks to the suspended triangle, the colourful block completely replicates the shape of the original building, as a memory and tribute. On the ground, darker-coloured ornamental paving in the same dimensions serves as a symbolic shadow, providing total continuity. Three entrances, one for each of the building's purposes, ensure visitors instantly know where they are meant to go. The ground-floor entrance to the nursery is obvious due to the fact it is decorated with the same sunscreen baguettes. On the longer, south-facing façade, at every hour of the day the sunlight reveals the joy of the colours that, according to visitors, have revived and undoubtedly revealed the character of this central spot at the entrance to the town.
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