Christ the King Gerontological Centre

Description

The Christ-Roi site, owned by the Archbishop of Toulouse, brings together different diocesan buildings and activities. Its goal is to create a gerontology hub, with a residential home for senior citizens as its foundation stone. To write this new chapter in the site's history, the Séquences architectural practice started with a blank sheet: a plot of land devoid of any buildings.

• Year of delivery

  2019

• Location

  Toulouse France

• Architect / signatory

  Séquences / O.T.C.E. S.A.

• Project owner

  Association Monseigneur Garrone

• Installation company

  Eiffage Construction

• Photograph

  Les yeux carrés

• Product name

  Piterak XS

• Product form

  Custom shape

• Epidermis texture

  Through body colour

• Surface appearance

  Plain natural

• Color

  01.Red

• Work

  New

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Titre d'article

Elongated lines and graphic contemporaneity

Corps d'article

This comprehensive project required three structures to each have their proper place on the site, without jostling one another: a nursing home for the elderly (still to come), a senior citizens residential home and a chapel. Terracotta was soon established as the obvious choice for the residential home. This decision was motivated by a strong ambition: to ensure the new project is a good fit with the colour and materiality of the existing brick-clad buildings, constructed in the 1950s. A link, continuity and coherence that in no way exclude modernity! Quite the opposite. Thanks to ultra-contemporary cladding, both in terms of its dimensions and implementation, the building reveals a bold graphic world of clean, simple, elongated lines.

 A creative expression that is supported by red Piterak® XS rainscreen cladding, which the architects customised in close collaboration with Terreal: two grooves were added to the standard model, giving an even more marked impression of horizontality. This striking, regular ribbing creates shadow on the façade, helping to lighten the look of the entire building. An endless elongation effect, reinforced by a rhythmical, repeated architectural composition. A wonderful achievement that is imposingly impressive without being an imposition!

The word of

Séquences / O.T.C.E. S.A., Architect

Interview

Jérôme Terlaud, Séquences Architecture

 “In Terreal, we found a manufacturer truly attentive to our needs, allowing us to make very efficient progress on this project. Dialogue was easy and fine tuning simple. We worked in close collaboration on defining the product: it was not a case of developing a really bespoke model but of customising a product in the Terreal range. We could not have achieved our objective without Terreal's involvement. Moreover, it’s fascinating for us architects to take part in an industrial micro-venture of this kind, adapting a manufactured product to meet the goals of a particular project! I’m also sure we’ll repeat the experience. Especially as terracotta is an extremely rich material. The idea that it belongs in the past is a mistake in my view: the multiplicity of possibilities it offers in terms of sizing and implementation facilitates the design of highly contemporary projects. Its materiality and warm colour mean it works well with very varied materials, including concrete, metal, etc. And the Piterak® XS type cladding panels make for cleaner, faster building projects. Mechanical installation means no cement or adhesive, and no lengthy implementation period.”