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Architects: Farid Azib Architects
- Area: 1470 m²
- Year: 2024
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Photographs:Luc Boegly
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Lead Architects: Farid Azib
Text description provided by the architects. The Urban Arts Centre project is located in the southern part of the river eco-district of L’Île-Saint-Denis (just north of Paris). The main square, Place de la Batellerie, is at the center of five buildings with different functions: offices, student accommodations, a hotel, a water sports center, and our Urban Arts Centre. Planned long before Paris 2024 decided to install part of its Olympic athletes’ village here for a two-month period, this site, originally intended for a joint development zone and initiated by Plaine Commune (local housing project), has undergone a new evolution in this context. Thus, the private sector was invited to take over the cultural facility initially planned without any precise programming, and we had to articulate an architectural response to it by creating free floors suited for maximum modularity and versatility.
