| Competition: Military Training Centre
for Armed Combat, Bure Blueprint: 2004
Associate: François Meyer
Brief: Foyer, auditorium, offices, control centre,
storage for soldiers' equipment, central warehouse,
assembly hangar, workshops. |
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The site comprises barracks to the west, tank and
maintenance hangars to the north-east and training
grounds to the east and south. The specificity of the
project is affirmed by its implantation in the centre
of the site and the fact that it will provide a link to
all the existing buildings. The building will be a
succession of longitudinal strata of varying depths and
heights according to the needs and usage involved. Staff equipment is housed at the lower level and
tank equipment at a higher level, forming a
liaison between the reception area and the start of the
drill area.
Because of the topography, one of the biggest
obstacles has been the connection of the reception area
– at the lower level of the barracks – with the higher
level of the drill area, between the
clean and the dirty areas. The logistics area is in the
centre of the building, around a service courtyard,
protected from dust and with its own access to the main
access road. |