Mediatheque Musidora La Roseraie
The La Roseraie media library is located at the top of a small park, which it turns toward, creating a precious in-between, between city and garden. The building opens wide to the qualities of this site, which visitors discover throughout the building, thus extending its activities towards this vast wooded panorama. This facility, between city and nature, is aimed at a public of regulars but also at passersby, the daily traveler. A side alley connects it by soft modes of transport to the nearby train station square. The new media library thus fully contributes to the neighborhood's identity.
The facility develops the notion of a "third place," a third place in the heart of the city, a meeting space, a social connection, like a traditional café: a place of sociability where each regular, each user participates through actions extended to various daily activities. This public presence constitutes an invitation to share, exchange, and local development. Energy efficient, the media library was designed with a THPE environmental approach around a wooden post/beam frame, filling with hemp and cotton insulation, its two green roofs and finally by the use of stone resources: Hainaut blue stone on the ground, sawn or softened, Loire limestone on the facade and reuse of millstone on the surrounding wall.
