C Type Gymnasium

steel structure polycarbonate skin   As the program requires a gymnasium of the same dimensions (24 × 44 m) as the available plot, the building occupies its entire base area. A concrete base supports a semi-cylindrical steel structure covered with a polycarbonate...

Judaism Museum

a veil of steel blades   The Frankfurt Jewish Museum is a hybrid. Composed of two buildings which interact, it generates an unusual and bifid temporal energy: between determined and undetermined, history and future, classic and modernity, openness and protection....

Theater and Drama School

theater, conservatory and café     The program of the cultural center of the Piscine brings together three distinct entities: the theater, the music and dance conservatory and the “café musique”. The project, which combines the rehabilitation of...

Kindergarten

sloping andpartially buried     Placed like a large landscape that softens the surrounding built environment, the Children’s House is designed as a succession of small inhabited hills. Voluntarily spread out in the built context, the project rolls out...

Law court

triangular volume internal transparency   The Caen courthouse project was developed as part of a Public-Private Partnership competition in three selection phases. The site of the building, at the tip of the peninsula, is bordered by a park and faces the OMA Media...