Madone

The Madone de Champdieu site is the starting point for this shelter: a large meadow resulting from decades of piling up plant waste, bordered by fields and vines. At the end of the road is the Madonna, a panoramic viewpoint shaped by the cultivation of wine. An ephemeral construction using a sober vocabulary, in keeping with the gestures of the vineyard: three rows of stakes stretching almost the entire distance of the meadow; three gentle arches that exist only through their harmony, through the balancing of the tensions that run through them. Together, they create a suspension that hints at the possibility of a brief welcome, the framework of an ephemeral refuge. An inside-outside that provides a shelter that is none other than that of the landscape.