CONSTRUCTION OF THE CDC ADMINISTRATIVE HEADQUARTERS

ALL WOOD, JUST LAID ON THE FLOOR 

The building, which houses the services of the Communauté des Communes Langonnaises, is located in the Mazères business park, a new industrial zone to the south of Langon, with highly-defined environmental objectives.

The landscape value of the site was an important element in the design: to blend into the landscape while at the same time imagining a visible building, simple in its design, with a strong architectural identity in keeping with its vocation as a public showcase for the Langon region.

The majestic presence of an oak tree in the middle of the plot guided the layout of the building, which is built in an L-shape around the tree:

• a single-storey building in two sequences articulated around this plant element, so that the landscape communicates with the building.
• construction on stilts to raise the project above the natural line of the steeply sloping terrain.
• an all-wood building, a material proposed in the PAE Mazères specifications, particularly suited to the project's HQE ambitions, and to the specificity of regional SMEs involved in the wood industry.
• a functional, scalable building, because today's commercial buildings need to be able to be transformed, expanded and adapted to new ways of working.

THPE RT2005 building