Maison du Temps Libre à Stains

Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie

MAISON DU TEMPS LIBRE À STAINS

Gaetan Le Penhuel

ARCHITECTS
Gaetan Le Penhuel Architectes

PHOTOGRAPHS
Herve Abbadie, David Cousin-Marsy

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
France

CATEGORY
Theaters & Performance, Community

Text description provided by architect.

In the re-orchestration of a complex urban fabric relaxed, this new facility serves as a visual symbolic and social relay between garden city from the theater to the site of Les Tartres.

Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie
Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie

Like the nearby water reservoirs of the gardened area, this new equipment irrigates physically and culturally the rich neighborhood of energies.

Our project seeks to express outside its internal complexity, resulting from the multitude of activities. Thus, from the junction of the streets, the building appears in the new urban logic.

Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie
Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie
Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie

We propose to hold the angle of intersection with the volume raised at the first floor houses the main entrance of the building. The name of the new equipment proudly expresses its goal front: House of Free Time.

The general expression responds to its environment by assembling elementary volumes in relation to the surrounding buildings.

Inside, a set of playful forms, poetic and pure transparency offered in the street, inviting them to discover a world internalized.

Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie
Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie
Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
© Herve Abbadie

This program consists of stable spaces (library, auditorium, nursery/house keeping) while others may change over time, (offices, toy library, workshops, training spaces), and be flexible.

Thus, this new equipment represents an attractive focal point in the future of the Clos St. Lazare.


Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
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Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
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Maison du Temps Libre à Stains
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