It is the territory
which the traffic circles of the shopping district do not have manages to
trivialize completely! The place is more complex, it is a
superimposing(overlapping) of stories(trouble), savings, identities also …
He(it) is in the confluence of three landscapes: there is at first an industrial and trade plain, an economic strength which came to strengthen the
agricultural activity nevertheless still present near the ground, There is in
the North, with the pond of Berre in the salty sea sprays and in the wild
banks, or push shovel mix(involve), tinkered small houses of vacancy, hut of
hunter(fighter) and herdsman's house, that of the Camargue. There is finally,
by the agricultural plains which weave a landscape in patchwork, the mineral
relief of hills more in the South, and the urban area of Châteauneuf, that of
Provence.
The project weaves the
sons(threads) of a narrative confirming the will to pursue the
registration(inscription) of the sports equipment in a local context, and to
reveal with this meeting the intrinsic qualities of this territory. The
arrangement(development) of the parking lot and the square of entrance(entry)
is the opportunity(occasion) to qualify these free spaces, to invent here a
public place in accompaniment of the equipment and allow meetings,
interbreedings between the world of the sport and this wild nature. The distribution (casting) of the various programs becomes an opportunity to fit out
a pedestrian connection since the city center up to the banks of the pond of
Berre. By coming down(by falling), the architecture weaves more narrow
relations with the natural identity of the place, stages(stadiums) become
meadows protected by hedges(hurdles) of bocage, and buildings(ships) are
flatware of textile roofs as safety nets or mosquito nets.
The sporting room in
this agricultural territory, is just like a big farm implanted in its fields, a
" farm to champions ", opening on the natural landscape of the
Camargue, and capturing the identity of the place … Carcass in the broken
lines, the concrete skin in wooden imprints, tinkered fences reminding that
bulls not far, wait for their ultimate fight. The concrete in " coffering
small board " is realized in the style of a craft(home-made)
implementation made by assembled boards of recovery(recycling); the
building(ship) so seems to have crystallized in the tint of the nearby rocks. A
wide fence in random(unpredictable) wink of pine of the North marks the
entrance(entry) of " the arena(bullring) " sports. The inside is
treated(handled) in values of grey close to some concrete and strengthening the
idea of a building(ship) sculptured in the mass.
Openings are limited
to centrings the North and the South opening both main rooms and offices(desks)
of the administration on the landscapes of hills and pond. The lightings is and
the West, too low are limited strengthening the minéralité and the scale(ladder)
of side walls. The internal treatments stay in a "agricultural"
register, with facings in straw and wooden shavings compressed!