In the re-orchestration of a complex urban
fabric relaxed, this new facility serves as a visual symbolic
and social relay between garden city from the
theater to the site of Les Tartres.
Like the nearby water reservoirs of the gardened area, this new
equipment irrigates physically and culturally the rich
neighborhood of energies.
Our project seeks to express outside its internal
complexity, resulting from the multitude of activities. Thus,
from the junction of the streets, the building appears in the
new urban logic.
We propose to hold the angle of intersection with the
volume raised at the first floor houses the main
entrance of the building.The name of the new equipment proudly expresses its
goal front: House of Free Time.The general
expression responds to its environment by
assembling elementary volumes in relation to the surrounding
buildings. Inside, a set of playful
forms, poetic and pure transparency offered in the
street, inviting them to discover a world internalized.This program consists of stable
spaces (library, auditorium, nursery/house keeping) while
others may change over time, (offices, toy library,
workshops, training spaces), and be flexible.Thus, this
new equipment represents an attractive focal point in
the future of the Clos St. Lazare.