MIXED-USED LEISURE COMPLEX IN MONTROND-LES-BAINS - FRANCE

DATA

Biography 

DATA is an architecture and design office based since 2010 in Paris and Lyon. “Department of Advanced Typologies for Architecture” is thought as a research and development platform, where new building typologies are explored and promoted.Our projects vary in program and scale.Among the practice’s major recent works are the mixed-used building of Montrond les Bains, achieved in November 2012, the “Lac du Der” Casino completed in November 2014, the Art Foundation of Galeries Lafayette in Paris with OMA / Rem Koolhaas and the “Casino and performance hall of la Seyne-sur-mer” currently under construction.Ongoing current projects include the exhibition and information center for Semapa-Paris Rive Gauche, a recycling center for Ville de Paris and a 3500 sqm commercial floor space in Paris.DATA is composed of a dozen architects, from several disciplines. Our team is led by Leonard Lassagne (b.1982) and Colin Reynier (b.1980), partners.Sylvia Bourgoin joined DATA in 2012 as office manager.

MIXED-USED LEISURE COMPLEX IN MONTROND-LES-BAINS

Far from the dominant architectural archetypes of the Casinos -small pastiches of an inherited image from Las Vegas-, we designed an object whose aesthetic is sober and discreet although very present.Composed of six blocks containing the differents entities of the program and arranged mainly on a single level, this new complex offers a clear and simple internal route through the large glass-roofs taken between these six volumes. This formal and organizational system allows the addition of new volumes and thus easily integrate possible future expansion of the complex.These programatic blocks are designed using a unique bi-partite typology, consisting of a clear metal upper stratum and a glazed lower stratum whose nature varies depending on the program contained. The upper part in expended aluminium sheet includes all the technical components of the blocks (heating system, AC, lighting, surveillance cameras, ...), and so it frees the glass lower part on which it is placed of any constraints.This glazed part of the facade offers great transparences from the public areas to the inner patios, giving to the whole buiding a feeling of lightness and openness to the lanscape.