Anzin is the town that inspired Emile Zola’s novel ‘Germinal’. The town’s development has been dependent on the mining industry; many of its houses are in a very dark-coloured brick. This is a post-industrial landscape attempting to achieve a mutation, in which the media library appears to be out of synch with its surroundings. Despite…
The site offers an interface between the town and an inter-municipal park. The project extrapolates this situation in terms of volume, positioning on the plot of land, and internal organisation. The project creates a broad courtyard in front of the park on one side and an alignment with the town on the other. Its volumes…
This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a ‘third place’ – a place where members of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as well as reception. The…
This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a ‘third place’ – a place where members of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as well as reception. The…
This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a ‘third place’ – a place where members of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as well as reception. The…
The new media library is set in the context of a richly abundant built heritage and landscape. It is located in the town of Pélissanne in Provence, formerly a fortified town, which has preserved a large number of town houses of great heritage value. One of these is Maureau House in the heart of the…
The proposed site was occupied by not only a number of beautiful oak and olive trees, but also some magnificent rocks. This made it a wonderful site, placing additional responsibility on the architect. The principle of the project consists of preserving the landscape. A precise survey was drawn up of every tree and every rock….
Presentation of the Monticole project, by the architects Nicolas Masson (LAND) and Perrine Bernard (BAG ARCHITECTS). Le Monticole is the name of a mixed project consisting of building on the same site: 36 social housing units, a media library, medical office spaces, a restaurant and a car park. The project owner is the SA d’HLM…
By AGENCE D'ARCHITECTURE HESTERS OYON Visit AGENCE D'ARCHITECTURE HESTERS OYON website
Renovation of the Secrétan Covered Market: renaissance of a local lifestyle Almost emptied of its shops and walled up, the Secrétan covered market had become an increasingly foreign object in the district. Over a century since its construction, this Baltard style covered market, listed in the French inventory of historic monuments, has now been…
By ARCHITECTURE PATRICK MAUGER Visit ARCHITECTURE PATRICK MAUGER website
Inspired by the nearby covered market, the project designed by the Patrick Mauger agency in Auneau takes the form of a contemporary hall. The building is set back from the street, creating an esplanade that extends the main market square. A friendly, diversified space combining cultural activities and community life has been created. Like…
This new hub provides a space for all the town’s cultural events. Stripped of any pretentiousness, the building defines itself as a metal-clad cultural hall. With its hangar-like appearance, the architecture withdraws, handing the space over to the cultural events taking place. The foyer with its glazed façade provides passers-by with views over the activities…
The aim of the new multimedia library in Terrasson, built at the same time as the Maison du Temps Libre, is to provide the town with a new boost to its cultural life. An innovative cultural and intergenerational complex has seen the light of day. The Architecture Patrick Mauger agency had sought to create a…
In this cultural project located in Garenne-Colombes, we continue to make and think that the light and measurement are the 2 convergent components to create space. The lines of the sun create a variation which transforms the concrete, crystallizing it of the solid state towards a luminous halation. Only the apparent neutrality of this material can produce…
The cultural center occupies a privileged site in the center of the northern French town of Sedan along the banks of the Meuse River. Attched to the central space of the theater, four suspended parallelepipedic volumes frame the landscape. All in glass, some announcing their purpose via vertical letters in concrete, it is easy to…