Bonneval sur Arc, France
Designed by Europe 40 Under 40 laureate Pierre Janis and his team at FABRIQUES architectures paysages, the Bonneval Sur Arc’s Agricultural Zone designed for the Communauté de communes de Haute-Maurienne Vanoise brings together nine livestock buildings.
The project was built as a local government initiative for farmers to support agriculture in the high mountains.
Pierre Janin was recently awarded a 2020 European 40 Under 40® Award from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum.
The aim of this project was to construct a communal agricultural extension to the existing village.
Each building has an individual courtyard with an access ramp to the zone’s shared barns, opening onto the central street and linking them.
A concrete ground floor houses the farm animals with manure pits below.
The shared barns above are built from locally sourced timber.
Goats can graze on the planted roofs.
A nine-meter-high earth wall at the rear of the buildings protects the site from potential avalanches in the mountains above.
This project, built on a fragile site, brings landscape and architecture together and creates a place conducive to animal welfare, where farmers can work together and alongside each other.
Agricultural Zone by Pierre Janin
Project: Agricultural Zone
Architects: Pierre Janin, FABRIQUES architectures paysages
Client: Communauté de communes de Haute-Maurienne Vanoise
