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Childcare centre in Lomme
Childcare centre in Lomme
780, Dunkerque Avenue, Lille, France
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Childcare centre in Lomme
780, Dunkerque Avenue, Lille, France
A simple building offering a wide range of spaces for small children to flourishLomme is a typical 20th century town. The town’s layout was shaped by the indus- trial revolution and the social progress it brought, bombing during World War II and, latterly, the economic recession that has taken such a heavy toll in northern France. It is a patchwork of factories, disused rai- lway land, terraced houses, major hou- sing estates and public infrastructure for predominantly social use. Lomme town council decided to replace a former fac- tory on the edge of a park, which contains a socio-educational centre built between
the wars and the new multimedia library, with a small civic centre. The first stage in the development is a childcare centre. The site is steeped in history and is greatly influenced by the neighbouring brick buil- dings and the hundred-year-old trees in the nearby park. How to forge links between the site’s industrial past, the wooded park and these brick town houses so typical of Lille and its surroundings? How to integrate a small local facility into a site undergoing radical transformation as part of an as yet unfinished urban development plan?Minimalism?
areas that house the service facilities and private areas. The upper, oxidized-steel part contains the building’s technical nerve sys- tem. Its underside is sculpted so as to create spaces of different sizes serving different purposes. In anticipation of future construc- tion next door, the roof has been designed as a large sun deck. Technical features are hid- den away in the dry area, which is covered with metal gratings. This high, oxidized-steel box literally becomes the roof of the child- care centre, unifying and protecting it.As the first step in a rather vague urban plan, the childcare centre taps into the unchan- ging elements of the site such as the park’s hundred-year-old trees, the boulevard, the nearby brick houses and the site’s industrial past. Our solution is brutally neutral. It is a block 30 metres wide, 60 metres long and 4.2 metres high. The bottom half is glass; the top half is made of oxidized steel. The glass reflects the streets, the park and the weeds in the adjacent plot, and sometimes, depending on the light and the point of view, appears virtually to disappear, making it seem as though the oxidized steel is floa- ting in the air. Seen from the boulevard, this large horizontal block with its patina sheen looks as if the park’s ancient trees are res- ting on it, like the surface beneath a still life. It also protects the park from the noise and visual pollution of the boulevard. The oxi- dized steel echoes the brick of the nearby houses, is reminiscent of the long walls of the original factory and sets off the sodden earth and tree bark hues of the park behind. The lower glazed part is subdivided by blind
the wars and the new multimedia library, with a small civic centre. The first stage in the development is a childcare centre. The site is steeped in history and is greatly influenced by the neighbouring brick buil- dings and the hundred-year-old trees in the nearby park. How to forge links between the site’s industrial past, the wooded park and these brick town houses so typical of Lille and its surroundings? How to integrate a small local facility into a site undergoing radical transformation as part of an as yet unfinished urban development plan?Minimalism?
areas that house the service facilities and private areas. The upper, oxidized-steel part contains the building’s technical nerve sys- tem. Its underside is sculpted so as to create spaces of different sizes serving different purposes. In anticipation of future construc- tion next door, the roof has been designed as a large sun deck. Technical features are hid- den away in the dry area, which is covered with metal gratings. This high, oxidized-steel box literally becomes the roof of the child- care centre, unifying and protecting it.As the first step in a rather vague urban plan, the childcare centre taps into the unchan- ging elements of the site such as the park’s hundred-year-old trees, the boulevard, the nearby brick houses and the site’s industrial past. Our solution is brutally neutral. It is a block 30 metres wide, 60 metres long and 4.2 metres high. The bottom half is glass; the top half is made of oxidized steel. The glass reflects the streets, the park and the weeds in the adjacent plot, and sometimes, depending on the light and the point of view, appears virtually to disappear, making it seem as though the oxidized steel is floa- ting in the air. Seen from the boulevard, this large horizontal block with its patina sheen looks as if the park’s ancient trees are res- ting on it, like the surface beneath a still life. It also protects the park from the noise and visual pollution of the boulevard. The oxi- dized steel echoes the brick of the nearby houses, is reminiscent of the long walls of the original factory and sets off the sodden earth and tree bark hues of the park behind. The lower glazed part is subdivided by blind
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