The Hacine Cherifi gymnasium (1) forms part of the same development as the Paul Chevallier schools complex, another Tectoniques project for the town of Rillieux-La-Pape (69).
Next to the schools with their pleated, green roofs, its size makes it an imposing, yet silent, neighbour.
The building houses two sports halls and support services over a total surface area of 2,500 m2 with internal ceiling heights of 9 and 12 metres.
Faithful to the agency’s values, the architecture uses a mixed wood/concrete structure without pretence or artifice, the wooden components being largely prefabricated.
(1) Hacine Cherifi is a boxer from the town who made history in 1998 at the Astroballe when he became the first French world Middleweight champion since Marcel Cerdan.