位于图尔雷特勒旺的体院馆建筑隶属于当地的一所中学，作为体育设施的一部分，这栋建筑旨在为学生们提供体育教育和马戏表演场所。简约的设计使设计师将更多心思放在材料的运用。实际上，马戏的教学场地囊括了对物理，文化，艺术，社会等方面的要求。马戏表演通常在一个简单拆卸的帐篷中，所以，设计师的设计项目也是围绕帐篷的原型展开的。

The building of the gym in Tourrette Levens is part of a plot where is erected a secondary school, and a gymnasium. This new building reserved for students and associations is intended for gymnastics and circus. The program simplicity led us to reflect on the plastic side of the project. In fact, the area of study of the circus, put out the physical and moral development, includes a cultural, artistic, and social. The transience of the circus that is assembled and disassembled in cities remains in the collective unconscious. Our project is an allegory of the circus tent.

▼建筑外貌，surface

建筑的空间体量刻意简化设计：一个14米宽，8米高的矩形平行六面体建筑与现存体育馆在视觉上延续，但在建筑高度上与其他建筑区别开来。这栋建筑作为南面一个新的个体，完善了现存体育设施的总体设计。

The volume chosen is voluntary simple : a rectangular parallelepiped of 14 meters wide and 8 meters in height in continuity of the existing gymnasium and detached from it by the volume of the entrance hall and deposits, which is less high.By its presence, the project aims to complete the overall design of the existing sports facilities, by standing as a new south gable. 

▼建筑于环境中突显，featured among the surroundings

建筑外立面由单一材质包裹。其墙壁由压模上色的垂质混凝土设计而成，展现舞台帷幕一般波动的效果。建筑表皮纹理通过使用两个略微不同的模型来获得，这两个模型与混凝土外壳同高，专为此建筑设计。建筑外立面由混凝土采用单一模型浇灌而成，保证其整体隐藏在帷幕图案外表皮中。

A single material wraps all the facades of the object. It walls are made of a stamped and painted concrete called “draped concrete” with a texture reminiscent of stage curtains.The texture of the drapery is obtained by using two alternating matrices of slightly different patterns, but the same height as the concrete shells, specially designed for the project. Those walls have been casted all the way up, and the self-placing concrete has been poured in a single process so as not to reveal a horizontal joint. The vertical ones disappear in the pattern of the drapery. 

▼建筑独特的混凝土外表皮，walls are made of a stamped and painted concrete

人与立面耐冲击OSB面板高度的比例展现了建筑的内部空间尺度，顶部使用隔音保温木材，天花板为混凝土材质。

In this volume, the human scale is found by the calpinage at the bottom (2m50), a bounding of impact resistant OSB panels. And at the top we used acoustic wood wool insulation panels. The ceiling is made of raw concrete. 

▼人与墙壁颜色的比例展现内部空间尺度，the human scale is founded by the calpinage at the bottom

设计的想法十分简单，“由布覆盖着的混凝土盒子”让建筑被隐藏的部分显得十分神秘，也让人对那些原本相同的东西有了些不同的体验。设计师想要在混凝土外表皮包围中创造一个雕刻般的内部表面，起伏的瓦楞如同舞台波动的幕帘。模压混凝土实墙抬高于赭石色的实墙之上，给人一种室内抬高的感觉。种种精心的设计使原本简单的体院场馆变成一件艺术品。

The idea is simple ” a concrete box that was covered with a cloth “. Concealment becomes mystery, and make us perceive differently what was commonplace before. We wanted to create a sculptural object concealed and packed in a skin of concrete, corrugated as a wavy stage curtain. The yellow ocher color gives the blind walls an expression of lightness heightened by the fact that the stamped concrete does not touch the ground. Because of this, the object, which could have been a simple gym, takes an artistic dimension. 

▼混凝土墙壁及天花板，concrete walls and ceiling

空间内，两个巨大的开口满足了建筑采光需求。其一位于建筑顶部中心，另一个位于建筑北立面。

Inside the room, a natural light is achieved by the presence of two major openings, not noticeable from the outside, a glass square on the roof, centered on the room, and a horizontal window in the north facade.

▼建筑开窗，the openings

建筑还增加了与其他体育设施的连接设计来促进各种体育活动之间的转换。设计构思展现了建筑功能消失于周围环境中，并体现了设计师对于对体育，马戏，娱乐，艺术和社会活动之间密切关系的理解。

A direct connection to the existing gymnasium was constructed to promote exchanges between the various sports. By this project, the idea of a building disappears in favor of an object carved in relation to its context and program. The rationale for the staging of such an object lies in the definition of the close relationship between sports, circus, entertainment, art, and social.

▼平面图，plan

▼剖面图，section

▼立面图，elevation

Project name: Gymnastics building 
Programme : Sport.
Location : Tourrette Levens Country, France
Architects :Heams & Michel
Engineer: GL Ingénierie
Client : Conseil Général des Alpes Maritimes 
Project area : 240 m SHON.
Project year : 2011. 
Photos :Serge Demailly