Retreatment wall

The salt marshes at the top of the upstream can be used as reservoirs, and the sanatorium will deposit of 24 plots belonging to farmers. the filtered sediment water into the intermediate pool or discharge it into the salt marshes and flow into the sea. Conceptually, it can be understood as a depolderisation in minature.

If the site selection of this paper revolves around depolarisation policies being implemented humanely, then most of the plans focus on fantasizing about an optimistic way of life after depolarisation. Here, water offers the possibility of an equal life. Therapy people's traumatized bodies and minds at the same time. The wall, designed as an architectural prototype. Section by section in its vertical direction, living and spa projects are set up inside the wall, including the dining room, water bedroom, and steam room. In the horizontal direction, rainwater purification and riverwater filtration towers, giant water transport plates and water tanks are integrated to realize the infrastructure for the circulation of rainwater, river water and purified water in the sanatorium.

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The Sanatorium La Manche is situated in the polder landscape south of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and west of the Couesnon Canal. Aligned to the Abbey mount the Sanatorium is a mirror island offering retreat and therapeutic treatments for a range of pulmonary conditions.

As an architectural island in an agricultural landscape, the Sanatorium seeks to engage with the greater ecology of the Bay and its fragile ecosystem by connections with water, the water of the adjacent designed wetland and the canal beyond. In this way, the architecture operates as an eddy between the Couesnon Canal and the sea, channelling water through its walls, beneath its bridges and below its stair towers, flooding its internal lake, discharging back into the Canal and the Bay beyond. The Sanatorium is a form of de-polderisation in miniature whereby land reclaimed for farming is offered back to the sea through designed rupture.

The architecture treats the human body and the ecosystem. By introducing water from the wetland into the Sanatorium it establishes an intimate relationship between body and water through therapeutic treatments: steam rooms, resistance hydrotherapies, aerobic exercises and aromatherapies and a designed landscape of internal views across, adjacent to and above water. An enclosing wall houses residential and therapeutic programmes, a rainwater treatment system and a singular elevated view to Mont-Saint-Michel. Bridges and reading towers animate the internal landscape, connecting and activating programme whilst creating viewpoints both internal and external. A laboratory and flower garden, library and acoustic performance space complete the programme.

 

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