Sports centre Véronique Pecqueux-Rolland, Longvic (FR)
New building
Client: Ville de Longvic
Location: F-21604 Longvic, Route de Dijon
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller with Sénéchal-Auclair
Competition: 2012, 1. prize
Construction: 2014 – 2016
Area: 4,439 m²
Programme: Ball sports hall with 550 grandstand seats, martial arts hall
Photos: Julien Lanoo, Jerome Beg
Team
Ulrike Bale-Gabriel (Project management), Andreas Laimer, Catharina Maul
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Statics timber: Merz Kley Partner, Dornbirn, CBS-CBT
Statics concrete: Clement, Fontaine les Dijon
Building services, electrics: Chaleas Ingenierie, Chalon-sur-Saône
Costs: Beca, Charnay les Macon
Acoustics: Acoustique France, Chalon-sur-Saône
Landscape: V. Pruvost, Montreuil-sous-Bois
Striking shape set precisely into the terrain
The new sports hall in Longvic in the south of Dijon offers optimal training and competition conditions for the teams of the regional handball and martial arts leagues as well as for popular sports and schools. Our design makes a striking statement with its silhouette, yet despite an extensive spatial programme, it blends into the small-scale structured surroundings with detached houses, a market garden, fields and meadows.
This was achieved as the height of the building was kept moderate by burying the playing field and spectator stands and the length is modulated and broken up by skilfully placed kinks. This faceting is continued in the green roofscape, which thus becomes an attractive fifth façade.
Dark shell and high transparency
The building is precisely set into the terrain with clear references to its edges. The dark anodised aluminium shell contributes to the integration of the building into its surroundings, as does the high level of transparency, which allows views through, in and out. The compact form and timber as the main construction material create an energy-efficient, resource-saving building.
Robust and elegant design
The ambience is characterised by the restrained colours of the materials - exposed concrete and wood provide a robust and elegant background for the diverse uses. Orange colour accents were only used on the floor of the ball sports hall and the subdivisible martial arts hall. A slender construction, a reduced material language and an excellent supply of daylight create a high degree of airiness and lightness.
