Saint-Hilaire-en-Lignières is a village that is gradually fading away. A place where windows close, voices stop and everyday gestures are dispersed. Here, there are fewer bistros, fewer jobs, fewer doctors. Just memories of connections, and miles to travel for the simplest needs. My project is anchored in this rural silence. It does not impose a form, but awakens a presence. It offers a single location that serves multiple purposes: a grocery store, a café, a post office, and a wellness space. A transitory space transformed into a vibrant community, a refuge for daily life, a rekindled heart. Between memory and usage, this involves reactivating a lost centrality. Not to reconstruct the past, but to provide residents with a future to inhabit together.
