From cultural requalification to urban identification

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Architects: Lankry architectes

Location: Joinville-le-Pont, France

Architect In Charge: Lankry architectes

Area: 895.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Julien Lanoo

Contractor: City of Joinville-le-Pont

Engineer Consultant: MTC ingénierie, Alternative ingénierie acoustique

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From the architect. From cultural requalification to urban identificationImplanted in the district of lower Joinville on the avenue of General Gallieni, the municipal School of dance in Joinville-le-Pont is a response to the cultural approach of the town.
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The Avenue du General Gallieni as a future Metropolitan Avenue is a busy main road; its traffic is intense, noisy, but the vibrant living environment brings a growing centrality on this thoroughfare. The dance school is implanted in a heterogeneous streetscape, ranging from more or less recent apartment blocks and well preserved pavilions.

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Set back from the boundary of the land plot, the project breaks the street frontage built along the avenue to extend the public space and to reach a courtyard. This justifies the access to the amenities, marking a break in the continuous chain of shops at ground floor...