EuraLens Leisure Centre

The design development is structured around four main actions.

1. To create a signal to the city.
   In the East, at the edge of the city, it is necessary to signal the entrance of the new district to highlight the access to the stadium and make visible the renewal and quality of the future neighbourhood.

2. To hold the street
   In a thin fabric, it is essential to build the city around strong axes of movement and attractiveness. The project welcoms the BHLS course on its own site, in order to maximise the synergies between public transport and business and to create an active and dynamic public avenue.

3. To offer a belvedere linked to the stadium and the Great landscape
   A volume capable of appreciating the whole dimension of the great landscape by bending to it’s orientation and imitating its movement.

4. To diffuse a positive figure for a positive Urban Contamination
   Finally, while it is important to consider large scale for a project of this magnitude, it is no less important to relate it in a tangible way to its direct environment. For this we wanted to affirm a free link to the University Park of Lens, extending the perspective of entry into the block of housing.

credits

Architects: Clément Blanchet Architecure
Clients: NODI
Nature of the operation: Competition. 1st Prize
Site: Lens, France
Realised in: 2019-2023
Program: Mixed use.15,000 m2
Budget: 24 Millions Euros

TEam composition

Engineers : Dehaene Architecte, PROJEX