Media library and music school in Sarlat-la-Canéda

The media library and music school are nestled against an ochre cliff planted with trees and giving them a unique character. The aim was to insert a contemporary structure into one of Europe's most beautiful medieval towns, where masonry and yellow Dordogne stone dominate. The geometric distortions of the project's layout are based on the lines of force of the topography. We invited the rock into the media library by carving out a reading room, and the concrete of the project was colored in its honor. The media library was built on the ruins of a factory from which we chose to preserve a wall.