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From Provence to Mekong Delta

DE-SO Architects

Francois Defrain Hervé Abbadie

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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited
01 January 2022
The visitor centres in Can Gio, south Vietnam and Bruoux en Provence in the south of France are designed by the architectural firm DE-SO and DE-SO Asia.

Both buildings integrate into their respective landscape and climate. The Bruoux en Provence building was built in 2010 and Can Gio in 2020 – 10 years later.

Slightly elevated above natural ground level, the Can Gio pavilion reception areas benefit from the cool sea breeze – a naturally ventilated gazebo that overlooks the mangrove swamp.

Built into a hillside, the Bruoux en Provence mines visitor centre concourse benefits from thermal inertia and the freshness of the ground, burying into the earth to create a shaded “cool” space for visitors that overlooks the ocher cliffs paved square.

Each building is built from local materials – a constructive choice that favours short supply circuits of the natural materials - laterite stone in the sandy mangroves of the Saigon River, timber and concrete from a site in Provence. The Can Gio building is the grey colour of the mangrove silt, and Bruoux the orange the colour of the ocher in Provence.

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Imprint:   Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 280mm,  Width: 216mm, 
Weight:   1.100kg
ISBN:   9781946226471
ISBN 10:   1946226475
Series:   GreatArchitectural Series
Pages:   200
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

François Defrain founded the world reknown DE-SO Architects, with Olivier Souquet, in 2005. Hervé Abbadie was born in Rennes (France) in 1962 and is an internationally recognised photographer who specialises in graphic and subtle work on the urban landscape. He work is emplyed by many of the top contemporary architects.

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