OXO Architectes, Les Ateliers Jean Nouvel and the agency Foussat Bapt are glad to announce their winning for the competition about the 3 Moulins site in Antibes with their project Econtone Antibes.
The team followed by Jean Mus - landscaper - share three goals : - Making Ecotone Antibes the main entrance and office symbol of Sophia Antipolis,
- Creating a new kind of 21st century campus in France,
- Establishing Ecotone Antibes as the excellence incarnation of biomimicry in south of France.
Surrounded by vegetation Ecotone Antibes will be composed of offices, hotel and services.
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Ecotone Antibes represents the ambition of an architectural philisophy, placing the architect within an artistic, social and environmental project. Located in a privileged location in the Sofia-Antipolis technology park, it represents a new entry for the latter. It will be the symbol of the technological and ecological transformation of the city, thus becoming an essential place of passage.
The ambition of Ecotone Antibes is to create, in collaboration with Ateliers Jean Nouvel, the ecological campus of the 21st century. In order to do so, the bias is to think of a building as a biological and technological ecosystem. A building that can become one with nature while having a positive impact on it.
As a center of excellence for biomimicry in France, its skin allows to raise the plateau and isolate it from noise pollution coming from the road. It provides innovative solutions with regard to technical constraints. A true link between the city and nature, Ecotone Antibes offers a functional plurality worthy of the most efficient campuses. Tertiary activities, hotels and services are merging to create spaces open to the outside.
Evolving according to the desires and the seasons, the campus of the 21st century wants to be a shifting entity. The building appears as an inhabited landscape where human and nature merge and coexist in a perfect cosmos.
