Daily Dose 1933

Philippe Rizzotti

Daily Dose Monographic Images 1933 | Philippe Rizzotti "The University of Franche-Comté and the City of Besançon have decided to build a new facility called the Science Garden. It is a place of work and scientific experimentation, but above all a place of botanical awareness and pedagogical training in this field. Even more than yesterday in everyone’s consciousness, it is a building of public interest. The program of the equipment is clear and quite simple. For this reason, its organization and its adaptation to a binary functioning – a place of work and reception of the public – must be perfect and easily readable. In view of the topography of the site and the existing plantations, we have chosen to locate a little west of the proposed right-of-way. This choice allows us to preserve the small wood and to embed the building in the existing slope while requalifying the degraded soils of the old parking lot. This choice also makes it possible to design a spatial organization on two levels, by superimposing cold and warm programs. It also makes it possible to obtain a more compact footprint of 50% of approximately 1000 m2 instead of the 1500 m2 planned." Photography by François Baudry, Vanessa Bosio, David Desaleux.