Lille, France
Prior to any functional consideration, it's a matter of creating a spatial system that enables the edifice to be connected to its environment.
- A 180-wide semicircle deploys its sharp silhouette between the tall trees, frames the clearing thus arranges the landscape. Such semicircle, a floating shape by nature, is firmly anchored into the site thanks to a polished concrete-stone that crosses it diagonally and reveals at the same time the North-South journey coming from the park's entrance.
- The blade leads to the main lobby rotunda which height mirrors the building's and which anchors it to the ground and stabilizes it.
