Type: Architectural School project for Master Diploma - A Level with highest honours
Themes: Forum, Arts center, Industry fallow, Campus, Learning center,...
Size: L - 5 Ha campus area / 8 000 m2 programme
Professors: Xavier Bonnaud, Phillippe Thuillier, Yvan Okotnikoff, ...
Make a public path through a building
The vocational training campus is a huge complex, its buildings can be seen from far. And this «big castle of red bricks» offered views on all the surroundings. To avoid creating a mono-programmatic district, our strategy proposed to install a public equipment on the river bank: Culture combined with Education
The Media & Kulturforum become integrate in this campus of massive objects, even if his style is different. Yesterday, the facade of the fabric was made of some ornamental bricks. Nowadays, the building is covered by a continuous patterned skin which give to him a monolitic aspect.
This building metaphorically shows different entities stacked together, with an fluent organisation of big programs between them. For example, the auditorium works as an entity, such as the restaurant, the exibition room or the media storage: Inside these, you’re focus on the program. The voids in between are opened, they are a reception, a Café and a workplace: These places catch the daylight and they allow views onto the urban landscape outside.
From outside, a cantilever over the promenade invites you to come in. When you go through the building, you don't feel like locked inside. Actually, thanks to the ramps between the levels you've crossed a succession of different sequences. And before you notice it, you've been from the public space to the top of the roof and back to the public space. It's like if the interior of the forum were on your way on a walk along the riverside.
