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Koezio leisure building
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Trait d'Union, Lieusaint, France
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Koezio leisure building
Trait d'Union, Lieusaint, France
Type
YEAR
2013
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
"With the lights out, it's less dangerous."
Smells like teen spirit. NIRVANA
Without any commotion, submerged in the commercial context
of Carré Senart, the project “KOEZIO” is exceptional; it is a creation in the
world of amusement parks, architecture and entertainment.
"For us, it is to finally create spaces where
people will get lost, groped, dazzled and agitated. This piece of work is more
of a set design or decoration, and this is exactly the direction in which we
want to guide our architectural practice. "
The building spreads over 6000m² of an indoor playground.
You need to cross 5 Worlds and succeed in group tests involving action and
reflection. The Koezio project designer intelligently combines the real and the
virtual as well as the physical implications and the mental ones.
The project doesn’t invest in the usual
pseudo-futuristic kitsch thematiques of the leisure actors. The space here is
simply defined by the play of light and movement of the players in the space.
So, this is a project that "trusts
architecture" to exalt a physical and mental experience of movement in the
shell of the building. We exploit all the areas, multiply the points of view
and literally move inside the structure.
"Here we are now, entertain us"
Smells like teen spirit. NIRVANA
The design of the volume and its insertion in this
contemporary landscape is to tell a story, to express as much as possible what
is going on inside the envelope while maintaining a certain mystery.
The silhouette of the building is the result of the junction
of two volumes:
The Hall of games (H. 15.00m), bringing together the
various sports areas, is a completely "blind" volume allowing the
exploitation of the games in the darkness, and the service building (H.6.50m), including
the entrance hall, the dining area, the bar, the seminar rooms and the locker
rooms.
The head of the building, covering the entrance, is modeled
with a "brutalist" concrete that fixes firmly the building in its
territory.
The nave, housing the game area and the air path, is covered
by shiny black and stainless steel strips. The pattern formed by the
consolidation of mirror reflections at certain points of the elevations
expresses magnetism towards a focal point for the site.
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