Our primary desire as architects was to give La Vache Qui Rit a space to complement the image it bears and the values the brand embodies, as well as a building representative of the region that has been home to its birth and later prosperity.
By designing a volume suspended above a continuous garden, we suggest an imaginative world, and by expressing it in the form of a box whose architecture is linked to its construction technique and to the use of larch as a material, we give it an identity.
This box, complemented by a transparent ground floor and a vertical garden under the glass-roofed hall, invites visitors to discover the place.

The itinerary and the interior-exterior views, often based on the diagonals of the spaces, cause them to appear larger than they are, but they remain on an intimate and domestic scale.
Thus discovery of the architectural and museographical itinerary is “in the box” and “in the space between”: in the dialogue between the existing building and the contemporary extension, between interior and exterior, between transparencies and opacities, between light and shadow.
We wanted the visitor to experience multiple sensations while maintaining a simplicity and directness, so that each visitor feels welcome in the “house”.

Marc Warnery