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Lil/Euralille Youth Centre By JDS Architects
JDS Architects have won a competition to design a youth centre for Lille, France.
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The Lil/Euralille Youth Centre will comprise a contorted triangular building, housing a youth hostel, a kindergarten and offices within its three corners.
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These three blocks will each feature cantilevered corners and are to surround a central triangular courtyard.
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This courtyard will slope up to a roof garden above the kindergarten and step onto decks above the youth hostel.
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This will be the first project in Lille by JDS Architects, who previously designed a cantilevered ski jump in Norway – see all our stories about the firm here.
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Here's a little more information from the architects:
JDS Architects have just signed the contract to execute their first French project for the city of Lille.
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Over the past twenty years Lille has become a European hub; a destination for business and congress, a great place to study and live and also a tourist destination.
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It is a city with a turbulent history of conquest and reconquest, a heritage as an important medieval city and later on enjoyed and sometimes suffered the title of Northern France industrial capital.
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Our project emerges from the idea of creating an urban catalyst, accommodating three distinct programmes on a triangular site.
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By placing a program in each point of the triangle we offer maximum privacy while allowing them a closeness and continuity of space, organised around a garden, like a cloister of calm in the center of the city.
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The lifting of the mass of the programme at the corners illuminates and activates the adjacent public spaces and creates a continuity from outside to inside of the building.
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Project: youth hostel, kindergarten, office
Budget: 12.150.000 EUR
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Type: Invited Competition
Size: 6.980 m2
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Client: SAEM Euralille
Status: 1st Prize 2011
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Location: Lille, France
JDS Partner in Charge: Julien De Smedt
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Project Leader: Renaud Pereira
Team: JDS, EGIS, Agence Franck Boutté Consultants, SL2EC
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