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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Orgeval in Reims, France by f+f architectesDecember 13th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: f+f architectes At the heart of the urban renewal of the Orgeval district in Reims, that is a worn-down sixties housing estate area with its problematics, the building opens up on a new large plaza and three different streets, while being largely contiguous to a housing and service block. This building combines 2 distinct programmes.  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi
 Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi First The Salle Municipale, or Event Space, clad in dark brick, is a large multipurpose event space. With a movable seating system it can host everything from larger gatherings to concerts, projections and theatre performances. The interior of the main space is in concrete, alternating smooth and textured surfaces. The wall elements are skewed, never parallel between each other, to break sound reflexes and for best acoustic performance.  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi The second main component, the community center or Maison the Quartier, on the other hand offers more day-to-day facilities for the areas inhabitants with sports, gym and boxing spaces, classrooms and workshops, daycare, but also spaces and activities for youth and elderly, as well as social services.  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi The building uses the differentiations in the shifts of the topography on the site in its organization. The building is symbolically open to the exterior with its upheaved built mass and transparent socle. A large ramp, that works as an extension of the plaza, leads to the main entrance hall. The activities, workshops and sports area are lowered with large glazed surfaces to the street and the new square, giving them a distinct atelier character. Thus it offers them to the view of the inhabitants of the neighborhood to whom this building is devoted.  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © Camille Gharbi  Image Courtesy © f+f architectes  Image Courtesy © f+f architectes  Image Courtesy © f+f architectes  Image Courtesy © f+f architectes
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