Community Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes / Dominique Coulon & associés

Community Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes  / Dominique Coulon & associés - Facade
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Venarey-les-Laumes, France

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  • Mechanical Plumbing Engineer: Solares Bauen
  • Cost Estimator: E3 Economie
  • Scenographer: Euro Sound Project
  • Client: Ville de Venarey-Les Laumes
  • Costs: Scenographer
  • Architects In Charge: Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos
  • Design Team: Guillaume Wittmann, Gautier Duthoit
  • City: Venarey-les-Laumes
  • Country: France
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Community Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes  / Dominique Coulon & associés - Facade
© David Romero-Uzeda

Text description provided by the architects. The project stretches alongside the railway line in the small village of Venarey-Les Laumes, in Burgundy. The building, designated a centre for rural excellence, contains a number of different initiatives, including a tourist office, a conference and culture hall, a day nursery, and areas for older people. Our task was to bring all these very different initiatives together in a single dynamic unit. The upper volume seems to float above an almost transparent plinth.

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Community Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes  / Dominique Coulon & associés - Windows, Facade
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Cantilevers accentuate the dissociation of the various folds, each fold producing a face which captures the low-angled light produced by the orientation of the building. The lightly perforated opaque skin is divided into a number of triangles – some are matte while others are shiny –, thereby breaking down the structure of the basic volumes.

Community Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes  / Dominique Coulon & associés - Table, Windows, Facade
© David Romero-Uzeda

The building often has a different appearance at different times of day. The day nursery is located upstairs, while the other initiatives are at ground level. A bright yellow courtyard continues the line of the areas used by the nursery, the purpose being to shield them from the substantial nuisance caused by the goods trains and high-speed passenger trains which pass at speed here. The transparent features of the ground floor are arranged in such a way that the relationship with the railway line is constant, and perceived as a dynamic event. The volumes of the project express its strong identity in the landscape; it stands like a marker of ambitious political determination

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Address:Avenue de la Gare, 21150 Venarey-les-Laumes, France

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Cite: "Community Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes / Dominique Coulon & associés" 04 Dec 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/778253/community-centre-in-venarey-les-laumes-dominique-coulon-and-associes> ISSN 0719-8884

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