Ornithological Museum

The Ornithological Museum of Hauts de Bonaguil, built in 1995, received the 1st Midi-Pyrenees 2001 architecture prize for cultural places, and was exhibited at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. This museum was created in the initiative of Michel Coste, then owner of the Ardailloux vineyard and cellar in Soturac in the Lot, as part of the development of this preserved site into a space for discovering the rural world and nature: introduction to viticulture, forest observation and walking trails, visit to the wine cellar. El Museo Ornitológico de Hauts de Bonaguil, construido en 1995, recibió el 1er premio de arquitectura Midi-Pyrénées 2001 para lugares culturales y fue expuesto en la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia de 2016. Este museo fue creado por iniciativa de Michel Coste, entonces propietario de la Viñedo y bodega Ardailloux en Soturac en el Lot, como parte de la transformación de este lugar protegido en un espacio para descubrir el mundo rural y la naturaleza: iniciación a la viticultura, observación del bosque y senderos, visita a la bodega. The project owner's objective was to present to the public a collection of naturalized birds that had been put together a century ago, in a simple building, which blends perfectly into the landscape, using local materials. The common idea of ​​the architect and the client was to create a small museum that expresses the poetry of the forest and the bird. The building, by its volumes, its materials, its shutters, is inspired by the architecture of tobacco dryers, which are part of the rural landscape of south-west France. Built in chestnut wood, from the forest that surrounds it, it gives a large place to glass, on the facade, as on the roof, to represent this wooded setting, made of shadow and light.