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POLE SIMONE VEIL MULTIFUNCTIONAL, SOCIOCULTURAL AND SPORTING EQUIPMENT DANTON DISTRICT  

POLE SIMONE VEIL MULTIFUNCTIONAL, SOCIOCULTURAL AND SPORTING EQUIPMENT DANTON DISTRICT

Le Havre, France

Project Featured on Mar 30, 2023
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POLE SIMONE VEIL MULTIFUNCTIONAL, SOCIOCULTURAL AND SPORTING EQUIPMENT DANTON DISTRICT

Le Havre, France

Project Featured on Mar 30, 2023
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
The project is part of a simple plan that completes the framework of a new public square intended to unite the neighborhood. Its facades are kindly aligned with those of the neighboring streets to underline the shape of this vast collective space which combines an ample mineral mall with intimate gardens.

The building draws its genesis from the archetypal morphology of the brick warehouses that populated the neighboring docks. This urban landscape, crenellated with double-pitched roofs, is undeniably linked to the heritage of Le Havre to the point of making it a familiar vector of well- being. The project reproduces their profile to perpetuate their almost melancholy symbol, that of a flourishing and peaceful era. It also pays homage to the simple beauty of their capable large volumes by attributing their efficiency to sports spaces.

The contemporary building, shaped in the image of an icon firmly anchored in its ground, is nevertheless being recomposed to accommodate its new function.

First, its mass is lifted as if by feat to let the public space slide into the heart of the action.
 Second, its materiality responds to the heritage equipment of matt terracotta bricks with a vibrant skin made of brushed stainless steel sheets.

Finally, the contemporary building responds to the massiveness of its models, with a ”transparent massiveness” capable of bringing to light, both literally and figuratively, the activities it houses.
 The project is therefore implemented with a dual appearance. He asserts an unchanging and powerful urban presence while dressing himself in a sensitive landscape animated by the pictorial reflections of his environment in general and of the public garden in particular.

The interior architecture echoes the exterior envelope in a more domestic register. It takes up the theme of clarity by diffusing a generous light through fluid spaces that seem powdered with a vaporous white.

Wood structures this peaceful general atmosphere and de facto adds a feeling of well-being, stemming from its biophilic action. It is the large sports hall that benefits the most, with an entirely wooded suspended vault following a sophisticated geometry.

From these founding attentions to the city, to the place, to its inhabitants and to its uses, architecture has become a sensitive interpreter to result in this unique edifice.


Photographies © SOPHIE ODDO

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