Cultural and school complex
Tinqueux, France
2010
program: School complex (kindergarten with 4 classrooms, Primary School with 12 classrooms, refectory for 310 meals/day), cultural building (300 sits show hall, area media, musical space) and underground Parking with 50 places
total area: 5 535 m2
client: Tinqueux Town Council
project: Alfonso Femia * with
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
Tinqueux, France
2010
program: School complex (kindergarten with 4 classrooms, Primary School with 12 classrooms, refectory for 310 meals/day), cultural building (300 sits show hall, area media, musical space) and underground Parking with 50 places
total area: 5 535 m2
client: Tinqueux Town Council
project: Alfonso Femia * with
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
“The dialogue with the outside and with the city become an internal extroversion, in a dreamy and bright dimension.” AF
The aim of the project is to organize the four requested elements as a unique building developed on natural curves and enveloped inside a plain and constant perimetrical wall. Limit and protection. The dialogue with the outside and with the city become an internal extroversion, in a dreamy and bright dimension. The principle of the volume of the project is simple: a plate containing a regular shape of excavated ground, with sinuous shapes and outlines, delimitated by a continuous facade that keep the same internal height. The result is an architectural building clearly identifiable in the district, in order to recreate a nonexistent urban front, that marks a new bookmark and enhancement perspectives. Nevertheless the building from the inside is a limit and the richness of space, matter, light, the attention to the detail lies inside the casing.