Fits

The legible arrangement of functions gives the La Minais sports hall a clear stance.

Key project in the Minais district’s deve­lo­p­ment, the La Minais sports hall is written as a winding that unifies the entire programme in a gesture on the land­scape scale. La Minais sports hall is composed of three main elements: the multi-sports area, the bodily expres­sion room and the service areas.

Orga­nised in a stepped ring around the high volume of the multi-sports area, the ortho­gonal parti­tion deter­mines a use on each side and sectors easily prac­tices with or without public.

The tran­si­tion from the ground, grading the reading scales, mini­mises the verti­cality of the buil­ding and softens the rela­ti­onship with the envi­ron­ment.

The equipment is impressive: In addition to a climbing wall, there are two grandstands with a total of 500 seats.

The cons­truc­tion system is based on a ground floor level in concrete for walls and floors. The emer­ging volumes are made of metal frame with beams reaching 40m in the multi-sports area. A triple-skin façade with external insu­la­tion consti­tutes a uniform enve­lope.

The stan­ding seam clad­ding is composed of perfo­rated and opaques alumi­nium sheets laid in variable hori­zontal lines. In this unitary clad­ding, the main entrance and the terrace are imme­dia­tely reve­aled as major elements.

La Minais sports hall is written with quiet and bright tones created calm and serene atmo­spheres both inside and outside.

The insulated, three-shell façade gives the building a homogeneous appearance. And verve.

The clubs, sports asso­cia­tions and school groups are located on the ground floor, while the spec­ta­tors are installed on the first floor. A large stairway leads up the public to the stands and to the recep­tion area.

The recep­tion room, gene­rously glazed, is open both to the multi-sports area and toward the park through a long window extended by an acces­sible terrace.