Ameller Dubois

Tourcoing Police Hotel

Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO

Tourcoing Police Hotel

Ameller Dubois

ARCHITECTS
Ameller Dubois

ENGINEERING
Sibeo Ingenierie

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Casalgrande Padana, Tiger, Tarkett, Colorcoat, Egger, Pieri, Unikalo

CLIENTS
French Ministry Of Defence

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Ameller Dubois

COLLABORATORS
Philippe Ameller, Jacques Dubois, Guita Maleki, Marie Warburton, Giulia Rotelli, Ioan Veliciu

LANDSCAPE
Armelle Claude

PHOTOGRAPHS
Julien Lanoo

AREA
3400 M²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Tourcoing, France

CATEGORY
Hotels, Police Station

Text description provided by architect.

A compact and unitary figure, the new Tourcoing Police Hotel strives to combine three inseparable challenges.

Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO
Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO

To translate the republican idea and represent authority, to secure and reassure a sometimes fragile public, and to offer comfortable and safe working conditions to police officers.

A corner building and an architectural sign, the new Tourcoing Police Headquarters is turned towards the city.

Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO
Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO

Carefully composed of simple and modular geometrical forms, it is perceived as a sculpted, homogeneous, and refined building.

Its unitary materiality and its sober volumetry constitute, with the factory chimney preserved, a real urban landmark legible and attractive.

Its coherence and image clearly express its status as an institutional building, while renewing the image of the Police station. It affirms the importance of its status as a museum or cultural facility.

Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO
Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO

The project consists of a square figure aligned on the public roads and closed on the service courtyard.

The hall naturally fits into the corner of the ground floor in the extension of the raised forecourt, facing the Parc Clémenceau.

Wrapped on all sides in white metal cladding made up of modular panels punctuated by thin slats, the building rests on a brick base that manages the difference in height of the plot and echoes the culture of Northern France.

Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO
Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO

The composition underlines by its materiality its contemporary character anchored in a place steeped in history.


Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO
Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO
Tourcoing Police Hotel
© Julien LANOO


Tourcoing Police Hotel
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Ameller Dubois
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Ameller Dubois
8 Imp. Druinot, 75012 Paris, France