Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret

OSCAR NIEMEYER SPORTS AND CULTURAL CENTER

LA SODA

ARCHITECTS
LA SODA

AREA
750 m²

YEAR
2017

PHOTOGRAPHS
Maxime Verret

CATEGORY
Sports Architecture, Cultural Center

LOCATION
Dieppe, France

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret

Text description provided by architect.

Located on the heights of Dieppe, the Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Centre represents the revival of Val Druel district.

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret

Named after the master plan's designer, the project incorporates the natural slope creating a balcony which reveals landscape qualities.

Its refined shape accentuates the surroundings, as the pétanque strip terrace and the nearby woods.

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret

The main space offers a seven metres ceiling height and a three-sided view.

Inner activities can be seen from the car park and the pedestrian lanes, passers-by can even look through the building.

The separation between inside and outside is blurred, the Centre itself provides an alternative walk connecting the lower and higher esplanades.

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret

Design sobriety is balanced by attention to detail and quality of materiality.

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret

The project combines raw materials  and produces a kind of preciousness, as witnessed by the oblique line carved in concrete to guide visitors towards the entrance hall, or by circles of light which underline the acroterion at nightfall, reminding curtain folds.

Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
© Maxime Verret


Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
Plan - Ground floor
Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
Plan - First floor


Oscar Niemeyer Sports and Cultural Center
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