*어반캐릭터, 컬쳐센터 [ Olivier Werner Architecte ] André Parent Cultural Center

컬쳐센터의 지향점은 연결이다. 도시의 관문으로 도시와 기타 지역을 연결하는 입지적 요건을 시작으로 60년대 사각형태의 하우스와 전통방식의 조적식빌딩을 도시공간으로 연결하는 도시공간적 특징에서 센터는 시작된다. -도시공간 속 연속된 시퀀스를 확보한다.- 그리고 또한 도시공간을 구성하는 상반된 두가지 인자; 어반 패브릭을 건축물에 "비움과 채움"의 단순한 명제로 투영 시킨다. 이렇게 투영된 건축어휘는 도로면 보행자의 안전한 보행을 확보하기 위해 들려진 저층부와 상부의 캔틸레버 스페이스, 어반스케일을 유입하기 위한 테라스 스페이스, 그리고 어반뷰를 확보하는 클리어 글래스 등 다양한 요소로 도시와 공간을 연결한다. 이와같이 완성된 컬쳐센터는 그 특유의 담담함으로 도시 속 새로운 어반캐릭터를 구체화 한다.

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Some places have a stronger symbolical potential than others: the plot where the new city equipment was built is one of them.

The new cultural center stands at the entrance of the city, where its main axis – the avenue Anatole France – crosses with the rue Lucien Jonas that leads to a housing suburb recently renovated. The building was erected on an empty plot that didn’t establish any relationship between the 60’s rectangular housing buildings of the neighborhood and the traditional brick house typologies that are on the avenue.

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Architects: Olivier Werner Architecte
Location: Anzin, France
Project Manager: Franz Bourgeois
Area: 749 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Olivier Werner Architecte

It is then the first goal of the building to link these different fabrics, to work as a hyphen at an urban scale.

The volume is a combination of voids and filled that interact with the broad range of the surrounding scales. It opens and closes, hides and shows, raises up and down.

From the exterior, cantilevers, ruptures and passages draw the limits for the entrances, the passage and the relations with the existing buildings.

From the interior, the generous views through the windows frame different relations to the exterior and the landscape.

The walls of rough white concrete and the glass curtain walls maintain the coherence of the volumes and play with the special light of the north of France.

On the contrary, the plan is simple and display the different rooms with evidence; a rational layout for the multiple uses of the building.

from  archdaily