项目名称：圣让德吕兹文化中心

地点：圣让德吕兹，法国

设计团队：Dominique Coulon & associés

建筑面积：3250 m²

竣工时间：2023年

摄影：Eugeni Pons

设计特色：

项目 - Dominique Coulon & associés 在距离圣让德吕兹海湾仅500米的地方，通过圣让德吕兹文化中心项目，打造了一座既宏伟又复杂的文化建筑。这座3250平方米的空间巧妙地平衡了碎片化建筑与空间连贯性，创造出一个突破传统文化中心设计的独特场所。

设计团队没有将结构构思为一个整体，而是精心编排了一系列独特的体量来容纳中心多样化的功能。这种碎片化允许尺度和比例的微妙变化，创造出一个动态而平衡的构图。项目最引人注目的特色是三层高的中庭——一个高耸的空间，作为项目的概念和流通中心，连接着东侧的剧场翼楼与西侧包含音乐、戏剧和舞蹈空间的三层体量。

室内建筑展现了对空间复杂性的深刻理解，在宏大格局与人性化舒适度之间取得平衡。自然光充满整个空间，玻璃部分邀请访客探索不同的功能区域。设计团队对访客体验的细致考虑体现在整个空间的流畅性上，短距离的走廊沐浴在自然光中，提供了良好的导向性。

圣让-德吕兹文化中心的与众不同之处在于它成功地将功能需求与诗意的设计灵感相融合。周围的花园不仅仅是装饰性的，而且具有功能性，包括一个露天剧场和集体练习室的室外延伸，模糊了室内和室外表演空间之间的界限。这个项目代表了文化建筑设计的重要成就，将建筑转化为在城市生活中创造艺术与共享体验的媒介。

这不仅仅是一座文化中心，更是一堂生动的课程，展示了周到的设计如何将日常空间转变为滋养身心的有意义环境，为法国当代文化建筑树立了新标准。

团队 - Dominique Coulon & associés成立于1989年，已发展成为法国最具创新力的建筑设计事务所之一，以其对空间复杂性的深入探索和独特的设计方法而闻名。这家总部位于法国斯特拉斯堡的工作室由Dominique Coulon和他的合伙人Steve Letho Duclos领衔，凭借将哲学思考与建筑实践的巧妙融合而获得国际认可。

该事务所专注于多元化的公共项目，涵盖文化中心、图书馆、医院建筑、剧院、游泳池、音乐学校、展览厅、学校礼堂、体育设施和住宅等。他们的作品集展现了对空间构成、材料运用和自然光设计的精湛理解，这一点在其备受赞誉的公共建筑项目中尤为突出。

在Dominique Coulon的带领下，事务所发展出强调空间复杂性与动态嵌套元素的独特设计语言。他们的项目多次获得国际奖项，包括2022年法国建筑学院的金质奖章，2019年被提名欧盟当代建筑奖—密斯·凡·德·罗奖，以及多次获得芝加哥雅典娜国际建筑奖。

工作室的设计方法拒绝局限于预设的方法，而是探索不同的方式来重新思考空间和用途，将项目的异质性数据构建成统一的整体。他们在建筑界日益增长的影响力通过不断扩大的高端项目组合和在国际设计领域的持续存在得到证明。

Project Name: Saint-Jean-de-Luz Cultural Center

Location: France

Design Team: Dominique Coulon & associés

Total Floor Area: 3250 m²

Completion: 2023

Photography: Eugeni Pons

Feature:

Project - Dominique Coulon & associés has completed their latest project - Saint-Jean-de-Luz Cultural Center, reinterpreting the concept of cultural architecture through a fragmentary yet harmonious design approach. This 3250-square-meter structure, located just 500 meters from the bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, responds to its complex coastal context through a deliberate decomposition of form.

The project's most distinctive feature is its triple-height atrium that serves as the conceptual and circulatory nucleus of the complex. Rather than conceiving the structure as a monolithic entity, the architects have choreographed a series of distinct volumes that house the center's diverse programming. This fragmentation allows for a nuanced play of scale and proportion, creating a dynamic yet balanced composition that connects the eastern theater wing with the western three-tiered volume containing music, theater, and dance spaces.

The spatial layout is carefully orchestrated, with the central void functioning as more than mere circulation; it emerges as the "beating heart" of the complex, fostering social connectivity and shared experience. Generous glazing throughout this space floods the interior with natural light while offering strategic glimpses into adjacent programmatic areas, creating a visual transparency that invites exploration and interaction.

The project's uniqueness lies in its relationship to the surrounding garden, with carefully positioned openings framing views of the landscaped exterior. This garden isn't merely decorative but functional, featuring an intimate open-air theater and outdoor extensions of collective practice rooms that blur the boundary between interior and exterior performance spaces.

Despite its programmatic complexity, the building achieves remarkable spatial efficiency through its compact organization. Circulation is fluid and intuitive, with short, light-filled corridors connecting the various functions. The overall effect is one of poetic pragmatism - a building that satisfies its functional requirements while maintaining a sense of wonder and discovery.

Design Team - Founded in 1989 when Dominique Coulon established his practice in Strasbourg after completing his architectural education, Dominique Coulon & associés has evolved into one of France's most distinguished architectural studios. The firm, which formally adopted its current name in 2008, is led by Dominique Coulon and his associate Steve Letho Duclos, who approach each project through a reflective and philosophical lens.

The practice specializes in public architecture, with a diversified portfolio encompassing libraries, healthcare facilities, theaters, aquatic centers, educational institutions, and housing developments. Their work is characterized by dynamically imbricated elements and thoughtful manipulation of natural light, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of spatial complexity and contextual design.

Refusing to be limited by pre-established methods, the studio explores different ways of approaching projects to rethink spaces and uses. This methodology enables the firm to synthesize heterogeneous programmatic requirements into cohesive architectural solutions that respond sensitively to their contexts, considering complexity as an approach that gives the architect freedom to deal with the heterogeneity of the project's data.

The practice's commitment to architectural excellence has been acknowledged with numerous accolades, including the prestigious Golden Medal from the French Academy of Architecture in 2022, nomination for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019, and multiple Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards. Dominique Coulon's theoretical perspectives inform both his professional work and his academic activities at the School of Architecture in Strasbourg, where he founded the master's program in 'Architecture and Complexity.'