Monery Gymnasium

Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault

MONERY GYMNASIUM

Gbau

ARCHITECTS
Gbau

AREA
2750.0 m²

LOCATION
Rumilly, France

CATEGORY
Gymnasium

YEAR
2010

PHOTOGRAPHS
Philippe Ruault

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Earthwork Barel & Pelletier

MANUFACTURERS
Dott.Gallina

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Batiserf

FLUIDS ENGINEERS
Nicolas Ingenierie

ECONOMY
Bureau Michel Forgue

TECHNICAL CONTROLLER
Socotec

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Ser Construction

Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault
Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault

Text description provided by architect.

The 0.00 level of the gymnasium is located roughly 3.5 m below the natural level of the terrain.

Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault
Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault

The service premises - changing rooms, sanitary facilities, storage, circulation - are buried entirely with this layout, so that only the sports hall volumes emerge above ground.the complex is served by two ramps, one for the public, the other for technical maintenance.

On the surface, the building can be summed up as the essential: two twin volumes emerging from a prairie to a height of 7 m, one 46 x 26 m for the large competition hall, the other 46 x 17 m for two small training halls.

Monery Gymnasium
© Pierre Vallet
Monery Gymnasium
© Emmanuelle Blanc

The façades clad with translucent coloured polycarbonate are smooth, flat, without mouldings or beads.the angles are incisive without relief. two thick cantilever canopies set to the height of the interior roof structure shade the south-east and south-west façades.

Their corpulence exacerbates the twinning of the volumes, their section precision, their clean outlines and the abstraction of the areas.

The repetition, sliding of the volumes, brightness of the two colours, and its immateriality relate this construction to visual arts research on the perception and impact of perfect or immaterial volumes.

Monery Gymnasium
© Pierre Vallet
Monery Gymnasium
© Emmanuelle Blanc
Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault
Monery Gymnasium
© Philippe Ruault


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