The building, intended to replace the existing equipment, is aimed not only at students of the Maxime Alexandre middle school, but also at sports associations in Lingolsheim, and in particular the badmington association.

The design of the gymnasium aims at reaching a simple, rational and pure form.
A rectangular volume is placed at the end of the plot, on the southern limit, and at little distance from the cycle path
If a first reading of the project reveals above all its massive writing, the aspects of the ground floor (hall and common space), the first floor (stands, meeting room and multipurpose room) and the second floor (indoor archery range/ table tennis room) introduces a different language, related to porosity and transparency.
Sports practice is thus staged to the scale of the city, in particular through the bottom angle view from the Rue du Travail, to the scale of the train by the window placed high-up for the indoor archery range, or via frontal and longitudinal contact with the cycle path on the south of the site.

Two large openings punctuate the overall shape, lighten the volume and offer a strong and identifiable character to the Maxime Alexandre gymnasium.

The building’s expression resides to a large extent in the constructive technique used. The bearing structure, mainly designed in concrete, is topped with metal frames on the sportshall as well as on the high volume. The combination of a solid and resistant concrete structure and a lighter structure, combining columns and beams in metal profiles, highlights the general geometry of the building, its flexibility and dynamism. The structural logic of the equipment thus echoes sporting prowess through a technical, structural and robust envelope made of prefabricated and insulated double concrete walls, a metaphore of surpassing oneself through physical effort (flexibility, resistance, tension, endurance, effort, concentration ...).

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