Passy Cultural Space and Youth Club / Beckmann-N’thepe Architectes

Passy Cultural Space and Youth Club / Beckmann-N’thepe Architectes - Windows
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  • Project Manager: Nicolas Gaudard
  • Assistant Architects: Camille Gaven, Linna Lay, Thaïs de Roquemaurel
  • Architects In Charge: Laura Giovannetti, Mathilde Mahler, Juliane Stolberg
  • Execution Company: COTEC
  • Landscape Design: Emmanuelle Blanc
  • City: Passy
  • Country: France
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Passy Cultural Space and Youth Club / Beckmann-N’thepe Architectes - Windows
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"Although unusually set within the site, the building subtly blends in with the surroundings. With its long timber roof, it creates a new horizon, a cut-out silhouette that forms a huge sculpture on the scale of the landscape. In this way, the project takes on a symbolic, contemporary dimension.

Passy Cultural Space and Youth Club / Beckmann-N’thepe Architectes - Beam
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Walking about under the roof, the visitor discovers not one, but two places. Starting out from a central covered plaza, the building spreads out on one side into an activity room, and on the other into a youth club offering all kinds of activities. There is plenty of room to move around, with extra spaces to be used freely. And regularly-spaced door and window openings let in natural daylight, with broad eaves providing shade.

Passy Cultural Space and Youth Club / Beckmann-N’thepe Architectes - Column, Beam
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‘Pixelisation’ of the openings and the signs creates superimpositions that supply a link between the natural and constructed elements. So this cultural venue ensures that indoors and outdoors are placed on the same footing, and hence future users with nature.”

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Address:77 Rue Arsène Poncet, 74190 Passy, France

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Cite: "Passy Cultural Space and Youth Club / Beckmann-N’thepe Architectes" 20 Dec 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/458450/passy-cultural-space-and-youth-club-beckmann-n-thepe-architectes> ISSN 0719-8884

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