Located in a neighborhood with common architecture and known for its delinquency, the new construction get along on a large plot with a multipurpose building, a kindergarten and existing outdoor sports ground.
The project is on two floors, with 8 offices for local associations and 2 sports hall with changing rooms and storage.
The grounds were redesigned to provide parking, a wide playground for children and an available way from the street for disabled person.
Pedagogical gardens (non-project) have been developed for the kindergarten to participate in the greening of the land.
The monolithic building, designed in shuttered concrete, wants to be rustic and sustainable, but also contemporary and quality :
conceived in raw materials, the building in stamped concrete reveals its light texture set, while the stainless steel cladding rig out it in a shiny metal skin with perforations, providing a "vibration" in the chiaroscuro shadows, thus protecting the building from intrusion and solar gains.
So there is two understanding degrees: First time, the general pattern across the building works under a vegetable pattern inspired by a impressionistic point of view of the breakthrough of pine trees in the middle of Provence. Second time, at the human level, these perforations interpret the pattern of neighborhood plan and put together "symbols" from filled and empty spaces to create a vocabulary of primitive signs, sort of "mystical"code for a building that becomes setting of the social bond so precious.
On the underlying theme of man in his environment, this project is a poetic answer to this need of "bunker" equipments.