Philippe Gibert Architecte

Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre

Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle

POIX-TERRON CULTURAL AND SPORT CENTRE

Philippe Gibert Architecte

ARCHITECTS
Philippe Gibert Architecte

MANUFACTURERS
Dark, Technal, iGuzzini, Arcelor Mittal

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nicolas Waltefaugle, Marc-Olivier Luron, Sergio Grazia

AREA
1230.0 m²

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Poix-terron, France

CATEGORY
Community Center 

Text description provided by architect.

This double request for a media library and a gymnasium allowed us to explore this programmes diversity and to offer a single building, a cultural and sports centre, instead of two different buildings.

Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle
Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Sergio Grazia

This hybrid equipment takes place in the landscape, between a multipurpose room and a business incubator, and communicates with its environment, including the big nineteenth century house behind, through mirrored glass panes.

The entrance, common for the two uses, is accessed via the forcourt, which gives its public building status. The shared hall, extension of the forcourt, opens on to the media library and the gymnasium, and also to an exhibition, reception or meeting space.

Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle
Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle

Transparency enhances spaces fluidity and helps the two uses not only to coexist but also to be complementary.

This complementarity is reinforced outside by the choice of metal cladding, which reminds the neighbouring industrial buildings.

Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle
Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle

Media library space is completely opened, it's structured by volumetric division and wide vistas.

The gymnasium part benefits from zenithal, and side subdued and soft, natural light. In the gymnasium extension the weight room is intimate and open to the back of the plot and the landscape.

Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Marc-Olivier Luron


Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Sergio Grazia
Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle
Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
© Nicolas Waltefaugle


Poix-Terron Cultural And Sport Centre
Ground Floor Plan

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