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Sports Hall
Espace Mayenne
Espace Mayenne is a multifunctional facility including a large sports and entertainment venue with a 4,500 people capacity, a gymnasium with a climbing wall for international competitions and a conference hall. In addition to these three main venues can be found other spaces, such as partner lounges designed as modular rooms to receive guests during games or shows, as well as offices and cloakrooms for artists and sportsmen. Outside the building, the project is completed by a 670-space parking lot, a landscaped area and a 250-meter-long cycling ring for national competitions integrating a training track in its center.
The building is located in a former military site bordering the French city of Laval, along the D900 urban ring road. The landscape heritage of the site is remarkable. It is composed of a natural area - marshes, woodlands and wet meadow - and an old bocage grid with sculptural trees and sunken lanes, which are all entirely preserved. The façade is like a skin wrapping itself around the rooms, resulting in a shifting shape that constantly changes depending on the viewpoint. It is composed of three horizontally stacked stripes that deform themselves in order to envelop the volumes as tightly as possible. These three ribbons overlap and rotate around the building, generating fluidity, unity and movement.
The lobby is designed within the interstitial space between the three main venues. Its organization allows a fluid circulation of the different public flows according to various scenarios of occupation - the three venues can be in use at the same time or not. The lobby is characterized by its inverted conch-shaped volume and its acoustic ceiling made of wooden boards. The building has two ground floors and is organized so that the different types of flows - public, sportsmen, technicians, artists, staff and partners - are clearly separated.
The functional organization of the building responds to its multiple uses. The design of the convertible grand hall is induced by its need for versatility as it must be functional for shows, concerts as well as for sports games. While sports events require an arena system where the spectators are sitting all around the field, concerts and shows require a frontal system with a stage.
馬耶訥體育館是多功能設施，主要場館包括能容納4,500人的大型體育與娛樂場地、設有攀岩牆並可舉辦國際賽事的體育館，以及會議大禮堂。除了三座主要場館之外，本建築尚有其他空間，包括合作夥伴休息室，其設計為模組化空間，可在競賽或展覽時接待賓客。另外，辦公室與衣帽間則可供藝術家與運動員使用。在建築物之外有670個停車位、景觀區域，及全國性賽事可用的250公尺環形自行車道，其中央亦有訓練用場道。
馬耶訥體育館位於法國拉瓦勒市邊緣的前軍事基地，緊鄰D900都會環狀公路。這處空間有基地留下的壯美景觀，例如沼澤、林地與濕草地等自然區，而有樹木造型藝術與路塹的古老林地皆完整保存。建築立面宛如把所有空間包覆起來的外皮，隨著視角不同，會看見形式持續變化。立面是由三條水平帶堆疊而成，帶狀外皮本身就會變形，以求緊密圍封量體。三條帶子在建築周圍重疊翻轉，能營造出流動性、統整性與動感。
大廳位於三個主場之間的間隙空間，其空間安排能在不同使用場合中，讓民眾人流能夠順暢通行，因此三處主場無論是否同時使用，皆能保持暢通。大廳的特色在於倒置的海螺型量體，以及以木板打造的吸音天花板。建築有兩個地面層，供不同人士運用：民眾、運動員、技術人員、藝術家、職員與合作夥伴皆能清楚分離。
此建築的機能安排呼應其多功能用途。大禮堂的設計是能多元變化，以符合彈性運用需求，不僅可在表演與音樂會使用，也可成為運動競賽的場地。運動賽事需要圓形運動場系統，觀眾坐在運動場周圍，而音樂會與表演則採用設有舞台的正面系統。
