Eventhall Belgium

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Hi to all,
Here's our latest project (Work in progress). This project is done in collaboration with Benoit Ottevaere (Belgian architect).
- subject: eventhall for the community in suburb of little town called Oudenaarde.
- program: a hall for small manifestations,parties and communal activities.
The hall has to be able to be divided into two spaces (two activities at the same time). It needs a 'foyer', a couple of bars, and 2 chillrooms adjacent to the hall(s).
- plot: the plot is a space next to the railroad in a semi-industrial region, about 1 km from the centre. Main surrounding building types: one to two storie gray (concrete) industrial buildings ( for stocking,small production),..
- timing: they start building the bare structure in september. Right now we are designing it's inner appearance and the entrances.
- concept= intravert black box (hall itself) with coloured extravert spaces around (foyer, the entrances, chillrooms).
During daytime the concrete shell will blend in the neighbourhood. At night, when the action is on, the coloured spaces will attract attention.

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this is the building site

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zoomed out

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groundfloor

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first floor

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cross section

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longitudinal section

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concept sketch:
The orange (can be other colours) is the main entrance.
The green is the foyer.
the blue is sevond entrance ( at other side of building)
the red are chillrooms (inside building)

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But now comes the part where we get stuck in our designprocess.
Coloured rooms seemto work for the extravert spaces.

But somehow monochroom spaces of that scale tend to get to monotonous so right now we want to enhance those extravert rooms with more secondary concepts.

For now we play with two concepts:
1. Their is a railroad behind the station. We want to use the concept of a train running by at night : see picture
2. Oudenaarde is a city that is known for it's ancient wallcarpets.
Concept could be to wrap the rooms with a contemporary wallcarpettexture

picture:inspiration for moving train

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tryout using mobile train concept