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Architects: Explorations Architecture, Igrec Ingénierie
- Area: 1950 m²
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Michel Denancé
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Text description provided by the architects. The Marie Paradis public gymnasium is located in Paris, in the neighborhood of the Saint Lazare hospital, a historically preserved area and rare open space in central Paris that is being reimagined as a cultural center.
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The historic axe of the hospital leads to the entrance and helps to divide the program into two parts around two outdoor gardens: a landscaped courtyard on the historic axe and a patio garden in the southwest corner of the site.
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The entrance is pulled deep into the site to create an urban space with benches, landscaping, and bike parking. The athletic rooms open onto the landscaped entrance courtyard providing a sense of activity to the outside and bringing the northern light from the courtyard into the recessed sports halls.
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The façade is composed in alternating panels of white prefabricated concrete and large spans of glass. The large multisport room continues this pattern across the ceiling as large skylights.
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This is a low energy building: 50kw/m²/year. On the roof, the skylight housing is fitted with photovoltaic panels pointed southward.
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