Dojo
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Project • By T3 Architects • Sports Centres
DOJO Saigon
T3 Architects just designed the first Dojo in Saigon (Vietnam).
The project started with a good mix of cultures: " Dojo " is the Japanese name of the building which means that the building will be built with a certain of Japanese traditional rules for the right practice of Judo. Then, the Dojo is located in the garden of an old French style Villa, and all this together in the dynamic city of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Designed and built with the main sustainable principles in mind from the beginning, T3 placed the Dojo correctly on the garden using the existing Villa to be protected and right-oriented to avoid the main heavy rains/winds and designing the openings accordingly.
As the existing Villa will be rented as part of the Dojo offi... More
Project • By Gaetan Le Penhuel & Associés, Architectes • Primary Schools
SPORTS COMPLEX IN CLAMART
Giant trapeze of nearly 5 hectares, the lot comes between two antagonistic landscapes of the city. To the South, a heteroclite patchy plot, to the North, a uniform alignment of massive towers of social housing. These, seven to twelve stories high, stand on the edge of a large garden city built in the sixties. The vast terrain of the operation offers an opportunity to pacify urban autistic tissues to one another and gives enough space to reconcile the two territories. To suture the shores, three axes of transverse traffic are created, including a central pedestrian street that serves the equipmentsports and schools, half elementary and maternal.The four schools, mainly on the ground floor, are nestled under a vast carpet of greenery offering... More