Any new architectural addition to the city of Lille has to address the past, the present and the future. That is even more true on the site of Vauban’s former fortifications – used in Lille as a zone where modernity can be organized without damaging the city.
The location for the new courthouse is emblematic for this Lille urban landscape: green run through by motorways (future boulevards) rich in open air activity with few memories of Vauban’s geometries. This condition has triggered our project: a colorful multifaceted object that is able to address any number of different clues and elements from the past and the contemporary world.
Courtesy of OMA / ArtefactoryLab
Architects:OMA, (Saison Menu Architectes Urbanistes)
Project: Lille Palais de Justice
Location: Lille, France
Partner-in-Charge: Ellen van Loon, Rem Koolhaas
Team: Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Grégoire, Timothee Jourdain, Tijmen Klone, Hans Larsson, Selma Maaroufi, Cristina Martin de Juan, Mathieu Mercuriali, Joanna Plizga, Francois Riollot, Anna Speakman, Cameron Walker, Ronald Yeung, Weronika Zaborek
The owners of an old high-ceilinged typical parisian style workshop asked FREAKS to design a ponctual living space that could evolve according to their different activities allthrough the day.
We proposed to work on the night part as a mezzanine on top of the bathroom and kitchen located in the back of the volume, taking advantage of the height.
In the foreground, a large monolithic and sculptural mobile cupboard includes shelves and a folding table and organizes the space in many configurations depending on where it is positioned.
“La tournette” is the name given in french to the rotating stage used for theater or opera that allows to quickly change the scenery while eventually participating in the staging itself.
This building, which had remained empty and abandoned for a long time, is located on a floodplain in a rather attractive area. Initially a mill, judiciously placed along a stream, it then became a small ironwork workshop, hence the presence of the large brick fireplace. Finally, it became a farm, where men and cattle coexisted.
We were confronted to a classic case of an old and poorly built farm, poorly maintained over the years, needing an important renovation with a “reasonable” budget.
In June 2013, the town of Champagné launched a consultation on building a Multisports Hall for use by elementary schools and sports associations.
This operation was part of a desire to offer a wider range of sporting activities, and to relieve pressure from the Jean Rondeau gymnasium which was built in the 1980s.
The proposed sporting activities are: basketball, badminton, table tennis, handball, taekwondo and volleyball.
In the interests of economy of construction, the city wanted the new Sports Hall and the Jean Rondeau gymnasium to be joined together to share technical facilities, cloakrooms and equipment.
This renovation and transformation of a Parisian top-floor apartment is surrounded by the magnificent Bois de Boulogne and the Jardin du Ranelagh, with 360-degree views of the city’s historic monuments, from the Tour Eiffel to La Défense, Les Invalides, and Longchamp. Originally split between two floors and fragmented by countless rooms, bathrooms, walk-in closets, kitchens and service rooms, the apartment, abandoned for over thirty years, is now undergoing a total makeover to become a light-flooded penthouse surrounded by vegetation and reinterpreted as an ‘eye on the city’.
This development of 185 dwellings for purchase (studios to four-bedroom apartments), distributed between seven collective buildings, are integrated within the project to restructure the Marcel Cachin area, which aims to improve the lived environment of the inhabitants, making the quarter accessible in order to create an urban centre, while respecting the principle of sustainable development.
The rehabilitation of this barn in the countryside outside of Aix-en-Provence gives Objekto, a furniture distribution company, an unusual showcase. The creations of Brazilian designers such as Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mauricio Klabin and Rafic Farah are displayed with a view of Sainte-Victoire Mountain, in the heart of the Provence region.
The building retains its existing volume, and its gable roof is slightly raised to obtain a comfortable ceiling height on the first floor. Half of the floor was redone in poured concrete to create an easily convertible single level. The central shear wall is separated from the facade walls for more fluidity. It outlines the four areas of the project: reception and storage room on the ground floor, office and showroom upstairs.
This project for two 200-seat lecture theatres and a series of teaching spaces provided the opportunity to effectively transform a courtyard at the centre of a city block. The project reveals the site’s urban potential for its users, neighbours, visitors or passers-by, and responds to a need for simplicity and coherence, with a mix of functional logic and aesthetics.
The heart of the block at 143 Avenue de Versailles in western Paris’s smart 16th arrondissement belongs to the Université Paris Descartes. Its formerly cluttered appearance was due to the number of buildings and structures that had accumulated above the one-storey car park that filled the whole courtyard. The key to the space’s transformation was to make it functional and to enhance it.
The design for the Terminal 7 club in Paris was developed by Estudio Guto Requena as a digital dreamlike environment—an invitation for people to leave their concerns outside and give way to dream and escapism.
To do this we created a grand interactive sculpture that occupies the entire dance floor. It was inspired by the idea of planting five seeds that grow into five large trees that join their branches overhead. The structure was designed using parametric modeling (computer generated form) that simulates the growth of trees. The result is a rhizomatic grid that shelters visitors within. This metallic grid is illuminated with the endless combinations of colors and optical effect of LED lights allowing flexibility of use that transforms the space according to different needs.
Agde, an ancient town founded by the Greeks, is now renowned as a mass summer tourism destination on the Mediterranean coast. Its wide range of accommodation options means it has become one of Europe’s foremost tourist resorts. This new hotel and holiday home development will extend southwards at the extreme end of the Agde shoreline, in an area that is still relatively undeveloped and where individual housing districts predominate.
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