架构师提供的文本描述。博特鲁丝中心的主要理念是美化历史上乔治·杜兰德的豪宅(1886-1964年，一位买受人自然主义者)，他得到了重要的藏品。作为一个有权利的人，他迅速发展出对自然科学的热情。70年来，他在朋友和其他科学家的帮助下，从欧洲各地收集植物和昆虫。这就是他如何收集了近5.000只鸟，150.000只蝴蝶和昆虫，以及无数的草本植物。因此，几乎所有的4.500种法国植物区系在此被代表。

Text description provided by the architects. Main idea of Beautour center is to glorify the historical Georges Durand’s mansion (a Vendean naturalist, 1886 - 1964) who got important collections. Man of rights, he quickly developped a passion for natural sciences. For 70 years, he collected plants and insects from all over Europe, with the help of his friends and fellow scientists. This is how he has been able to collect nearly 5.000 birds, 150.000 butterflies and insects, and numerous herbariums. Thus almost all 4.500 species of the french flora are hereby represented.

 © Stephane Chalmeau

(斯蒂芬娜·卡尔摩尔)

该项目旨在发展以生物多样性为主题的教育和科学支助，以及整个地区的管理战略和演变前景。除了主题花园、堆肥和利用雨水浇水(这是一些明显的行动)之外，该项目旨在帮助新形式的生物多样性再生这个被遗弃30年的遗址。一些地块已达到高潮，全球干预提供了两种选择：一种是整体保护，一种是最低限度的干预，可以是一种新的自然多样化。相反，由于频繁割草和放牧，其他一些地块一直处于生物贫困状态。这些国家可以利用更高水平的干涉主义，以便建立一个长期的新生态系统。

The project aims to develop educational and scientific supports themed on biodiversity, as well as a management strategy and evolution prospectives for the whole area. Beyond the thematic gardens, composting, and using rainwater for watering, that are some obvious actions, the project aims to help new forms of biodiversity to regenerate this site, abandoned for 30 years. Some plots of land have reached a state of «climax», and the global intervention presents two alternatives : either an integral preservation, either a minimal intervention that could engage a new natural diversification. Some other plots, on the contrary, have been maintained in a state of biological poverty due to frequent mowing and pasture. These ones could use a higher level of interventionism, in order for a new ecosystem to settle on a long term basis.

 © Nicolas Pineau

c.尼古拉斯·皮诺

Biodiversity

博物馆

The Museum & Biodiversity research center tries to find a right balance between light actions, preserving the biodiversity already on site, and other stronger actions, creating a positive impact on the biological diversity. Thus the project is neither a theme park, nor an ornamental garden. This really is a site-specific project, inspired by the local biodiversity, the topography, and the other qualities that are proper to Beautour. The visit itinerary is drawn by this logic, scientific purpose leading the visitor down to the fields and the valley, where the wild nature meets both Beautour historical and newly designed gardens and meadows.

 © Stephane Chalmeau

(斯蒂芬娜·卡尔摩尔)

建筑工程

Architectural project

在一个非常具有景观特色的绿色环境中，该项目具有强烈的特色，以一种当代和创新的方式重新诠释了一种传统技术，采用了一种完全覆盖建筑墙壁和屋顶的茅草皮。竞争渲染无视材料的自然老化，随着季节的推移，逐渐褪去灰色色调和色调。就像一个紧凑的形状会与杜兰德先生的豪宅竞争，建筑变得有机，拥抱豪宅，包围它，并在不推翻自然秩序的情况下在工地上传播。实心生栗树树干也混淆了模拟工程的整体形象。这座建筑作为铺在地面上的一条支路，是一片“已建成的景观”，是一种完成自然景观的“新地理”。让建筑物上升到地面，使生物多样性得以保持在原状，并将地基工程的影响降至最低。这个项目缓缓上升，揭开了容纳青蛙和苍鹭的池塘的面纱。技术设施附件漆成黑色，房子、储藏室和一个木柴锅炉。一个教学温室矗立在它的入口处。

In a very present landscaped green setting, the project takes on a strong identity, reinterpretating a traditional technique in a contemporary and innovative way, by adopting a thatched skin, that entirely covers both walls and roof of the building. The competition renderings dispay the natural aging of the material, fading to grey tones and shades changing as the seasons pass by. As a compact shape would have vied with Mr Durand’s mansion, the building grows organic, embracing the mansion, surrounding it and spreading on the site without overthrowing the natural order. Solid raw chestnut tree trunks also confuse the overall image of the mimetic project. The building, as a branch laying on the ground, is a ‘piece of built landscape’, a ‘new geography’ completing the natural scenography. Making the building rise up the ground allows the biodiversity to stay in place and minimizes the impact of foundation works. The project slowly lifts up to unveil the pond hosting frogs and herons. The technical facilities annex is painted black and houses lockerrooms and a wood-fired boiler. A pedagogical greenhouse stands next to it at the entrance of the site.