Kindergarten Biot

A public kindergarten by Heams & Michel for the town of Biot, on the French Riviera. The design picks up the restanques, the dry-stone agricultural terraces that shaped the original site and its surroundings, and turns them into the building's section: the program steps down with the slope rather than flattening it. The roof becomes a small public square, with pétanque courts and a buvette for sunny afternoons. What was a topographic constraint becomes shared ground between the crèche and the town.