Marie Beine

Situated in edge of Mass and becoming integrated into a network of aquatic equipments, the project of a sports and wellness centre joins in an urban park. The guidelines of the project answer the movements of important streams which marked the river site, originally torrential. Streams are realized by bands (strips) running in the park, so creating diversified spaces occupying the circles created by the games of twisting and undulation. In the park as in the building, the development of spaces in length offers to the user a succession of circles confronting him with particular sensory experiences. The lines of strength create a complexity (fluctuations in waters) and a new relief which eventually faces the wooded elevation of the railroad, the element cutting through the site. These uprisings create internal and external spaces, welcoming the aquatic centre, divided into two main parts: Maas-side, the sports environment and park-side, the wellness environment. The differentiated spaces offer on one side, big heights, plate glass windows, luminosity and on the other one, more intimacy. In the wellness space, closed, the user, progressing from the darkest in the most brilliant, goes through a symbolizing aquatic progress symbolizing the “purification” of the body. This state of plenitude is translated by a last opening on the landscape and by a more intense light. In the sports space, ponds are articulated so as to cross of the most sports (diving boards) in the most quiet (paddling pools). Between these two arms then takes place an internal space with its diversified gardens and its ponds. The whole gives a rather sober and rangy volumetric, becoming integrated into the horizontal landscape of the edge of Maas.

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