New Youth Center in Lille, France design by JDS / Julien De Smedt Architects

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Project Details: Project: Youth hostel, kindergarten, office Budget: 12,150,000 EUR Type: Invited Competition Size: 6,980 m2 Client: SAEM Euralille Status: 1st Prize 2011 Location: Lille, France Team: JDS, EGIS, Agence Franck Boutté Consultants, SL2EC JDS Partner in Charge: Julien De Smedt Project Leader: Renaud Pereira Project Team: Henning Stuben, Sandra Fleischmann, Heechan Park, Francisco Villeda, Edna Lueddecke, Wouter Dons, Felix Luong, Leonora Daly, David Dominguez Iriondo, Priscilla Girelli, Marion Julien Project Description from the Architects: 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. 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. Our project emerges from the idea of creating an urban catalyst, accommodating three distinct programmes on a triangular site. By placing a program in each point of the triangle we offer maximum privacy while allowing them a closeness and continuity of space, organized around a garden, like a cloister of calm in the center of the city. 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.

ource: JDS / Julien De Smedt Architects

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