Designed by atelier d’architecture King Kong, The town of Mouvaux first created an urban hub where a school, housing units, and sports hall were built. A cultural center was subsequently added, erected on a plot of land conferring optimum visibility and bringing the urban development zone to fruition. The aim of this project was to create a cultural instrument including a performance hall, premises for associations, a venue for symposiums and conferences and workshops for artistic practices such as theatre, music and the visual and plastic arts.
Photography: Arthur Péquin
The building occupies the entirety of the plot?s trapezoid footprint and is positioned so as to best benefit from natural sunlight. As a response to the plurality of the design?s functions, it is split in two by a glazed fault line accommodating the entrance lobby. The fault line resembles a ?covered street? and is the structural backbone around which the two different universes distributed over the building?s three floors (ground floor and two upper stories) are organized. The professional performance hall is situated to its left while all other activities are housed to the right, visible from the central public space. The fault line serves, then, at once as a frontier and meeting place, providing an efficient means of circulating through the building and ushering natural light into its very heart. Photography: Arthur Péquin
The grammar of this design is conditioned by the geometry of the plot of ...