Article source: D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates

A unifying and fun building:

The urban challenge was to create a frame edge structuring this corner plot whose boundaries are based on low hosted terraced buildings, at the Marx Dormoy and Léon Blum streets. At the corner, the school restaurant’s parapet ascends gently, creating a bow that hides the restaurant’s technical equipment (centralair handlingand heat pump) while freeing the ground floor. The architectural treatment is contextual in its urban form and its materiality; the use of the brick, which dominates the landscape, has received a contemporary and qualitative review showcasing the polychrome emblematic brick bondingof the regional architecture .The layout of the masonry, with an almost random pattern, evokes the snake skin and activates the imaginary potential, architecture and young children dream-like: in a world where you have to respect the rules of the urban game, the building delivers a message of imagination, and seems, with its “snake skin” and “scale-like windows” to have the power to move.

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• Architects: D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates
• Project: Paul Bert Léon Blum Boa Canteen
• Location: Lille-Lomme, North, France
• Software used: Autocad and sketchup
• CLIENT: (Associate Community of Lomme- Lille)
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates, Architects (Tourcoing), KHEOPS engineering, BET (Department of Technical Studies / Bureau d’Etudes Techniques) fluids and electricity (Lille), Beha Legrand, BET (Department of Technical Studies / Bureau d’Etudes Techniques)collective kitchens and hygiene (Lille), BSE ECONOMIE, Economist (Loos)
• SURFACE AREA: 417m²
• CALENDAR: 2012-2014
• COST: 1M €HT
• MISSION: Construction of a catering office for Paul Bert and Léon Blum scholar group – Marx Dormoy Street – 59160 LOMME

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