JEAN DOINET CACTUS CONSERVATORY

Sart-Tilman

Project as a collaborateur of architect Claude Strebelle, june 1978

Project for a tropical-arid greenhouse of 8700m2, intended for the housing of a great cactus collection bequeathed to the Université de Liège.
The parti expresses the opposition between the main space, the greenhouse itself, and the technical and scientific annexes. Kahnian, or Aristotelician parti, which lets each of the architectural types fully develop its formal possibilities.

The main space is inspired by the folded glass surfaces of which the victorian Paxton had made a demonstration in London's Crystal Palace.