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Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc, Gaël Le Nouëne - Ateliers O-S architectes
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Biography: Ateliers O-S architectes Vincent Baur + Guillaume Colboc + Gaël Le Nouëne
Ateliers O-S architectes is an architecture office based in Paris found in 2007 by three partners Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc and Gaël Le Nouëne, which often collaborate with personalities from other fields like plastic art or landscape design. Before they develop their own common projects, Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc and Gaël Le Nouëne have worked with stimulating architects like Rem Koolhaas or Adriaan Geuze in Nederland.
In 2011 the office is short -listed for the « Première Oeuvre » award in France, a 39 dwellings project located in Chalon-sur-Saone.
Partners since 2002, they are involved in many international competitions where their projects are regularly remarked, “O-S refers to many wordplay, in particular Open Source and Operating System, concept that synthesizes ideas of open-mindedness and production required for developing a project. With this name we stand out the idea of an open team, where dialog and self expression is fundamental. For us, the amalgam of ideas and proposals is a way to support the project, to transform it and also to uncover the nature of each situation.
Cultural équipement
URBAN AND LANSCAPED SEQUENCE
Located in the middle of a restructured district in Nevers, the new Cultural Centre is a public facility open to the neighborhood, which will host local organizations. The building must develop the identity of the district. The location of the building will preconfigure the organization of the public space, surrounded by the Avenue Lyauteyto the north, renovated housing to the west and the south and new housing to the east.
The main elements of the program are organized on two levels, around a federative patio bringing light and cohesion in the heart of the project:
- a multipurpose room (shows and concerts) of 220 seats
- a dance hall
- working and meeting rooms
- an educational childcare structure
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT
The building was designed and built based on two principles: density and generosity for the city and for users.
The strategic position of the Cultural Center and the program led us to design a compact and generous project, as an extension of the public space enhancing the identity and image of the neighborhood.
A square is created in front of the building. Space of conviviality and meeting, it climbs over the project with a wide open staircase, like an agora overlooking the neighborhood.
A wide double height hall provides access to the ground floor and the second floor. On the ground floor are located the multipurpose room, the childcare structure and working rooms generously lighted by the patio and openings on the facades Fluid and circular flows are organized around the central patio.
Related to the outdoor stair, an opened staircase leads to the upper level which hosts the dance hall and meeting rooms. A private terrace is accessible to users of local organizations.
This concrete building frame is covered by a wooden autoclaved cladding, intended to create a friendly environment in a tough environment.
