The Flow
The Flow
atelier d'architecture King Kong
ARCHITECTS
Atelier D'architecture King Kong
PROJECT MANAGER
Nicolas Broussous
ENGINEERING COMPANY
Projex Ingénierie
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Frédéric Neau
ACOUSTICIAN
Kahle Acoustics
HEQ
Diagobat
CLIENT
City Of Lille
LOCATION
Lille, France
CATEGORY
Concert House, Cultural Center
Text description provided by architect.
In its cultural development policy framework and renovation of the Moulins neighbourhood, the City of Lille started in 2009 the building of a new cultural equipement that could enable the development of Moulins's existing. atre, plastic and visual arts) due to lack of space.
Maison Folie, that lacked specific spaces to carry out all of its projects, and to create a Euroregional Center of Urban Cultures (The Flow – House of Hip-Hop), a structure made necessary by the importance of activities linked to that practice that had until then no place to unfold.
The importance of this project justified its integration in a site close to the town center. The will to unite these two equipments in a same place presented numerous advantages for both structures, including the possibility to ensure de facto synergy, their objectives being common.
The Maison Folie de Moulins, a former café, contains a certain number of parts articulated around two courtyards. A first partial rehabilitation had taken place before our intervention.
We were charged to accomplish complementary works, end exhibition and diverse activity rooms, parallely to the construction of a building created ex nihilo, on the front of the lot.
