| Competition: Triple Sports Hall at a
Vocational School, Viège 1st place | Blueprint: 2004
Associates: François Meyer, Claude Fabrizzi
Brief: 3 sports halls, apparatus rooms, changing
rooms |
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By siting the hall at the end of the school complex, we
have endeavoured to portray a sports
& leisure facility that connects the three buildings.
Its introduction reinforces and dynamizes the dialogue
between the buildings and their environment, ensuring a
minimum of empty spaces such as paths, squares and
entrances while preserving an outside sports area to the
maximum extent possible.Despite its complex volumetry,
the building has a uniquely compact form, composed of an
orthogonale sports hall and a lower service area which
loses shape in contrast to the existing assembly. The
sports hall has been designed mainly for school use –
that is, as a juxtaposition of three halls, each of
which is volumetrically defined, with its own lighting,
its own changing-rooms, its own access… The hall enjoys
optimal natural lighting from saw-toothed roofs with a
north-east orientation and a visual opening on to the
grounds outside. The service facilities are on two
levels: apparatus at ground level and changing-rooms
upstairs. |