CASA FRANCA
Home, manifesto and heart of Greenline Foundation
Greenline Foundation’s headquarters, Casa Franca is a responsible building that acts as a political and poetic manifesto, created by Sarah Valente
and built by Dechelette Architecture.
A unique, eco-responsible building that reflects Sarah Valente and Greenline Foundation’s values
Matured over 6 years, Casa Franca is a building designed to embody the values of Greenline Foundation and its founder as coherently as possible.
This is the first adobe building to be constructed in the city of Paris: a technical feat in the service of ecological commitment, brought to fruition by the firm Dechelette Architecture.
Using adobe is an ancestral, natural and ecological construction method based on raw earth. The raw material used was extracted in Beauvais, less than 100km from the construction site, thus enabling a short circuit economy.
A metaphorical tree house in the heart of Paris
Hybrid and comitted, Casa Franca is a place for artistic experimentation, meetings, exhibitions and residences, respectful of the ecological challenges of our time.
Like a forest, the house is shaded by a symbolic tree, offering a succession of clearings, luminous openings and enveloping undergrowth. Artworks find their place naturally, sometimes in full light, sometimes in shadow, where they become luminescent.
Casa Franca is above all a story of encounters and friendships. The world of committed artist Sarah Valente is marked by her love of the forest, the mystical and the ancestral.
Sarah works with pigments, earth and wood, multiplying her artistic approaches around plants.
She likes to create immersive worlds and large-scale installations that plunge viewers into another world.
Through her work, she raises public awareness of causes close to her heart, and shares her wonder at the beauty and intelligence of the world around us.
Dressed and inhabited with contemporary art, partly from the Greenline Collection
Beyond its wood structure and adobe facade, Casa Franca embodies the soul of the Greenline Foundation down to the smallest detail.
From floor to ceiling, no fewer than a hundred works by 40 different artists decorate – and, above all, constitue – Casa Franca. Each of these artists is featured in the Greenline Collection because of the ecological dimension of their work, reflected in the materials used and the themes represented.
Too numerous to mention, they include woodwork by Victor de Rossi, textile works by Pangea, a table by Ugo Schildge or a painting by Marcel⸱la Barceló (see adjacent photo).
Casa Franca is not open to the public, but can be visited on special occasions. For all inquiries, please contact us at the following address: casafranca@greenline.foundation