JDS Architects has won a competition to design a youth centre for Lille. This will be the first project in Lille by JDS Architects.

 

The project emerges from the idea of creating an urban catalyst, accommodating three distinct programmes on a triangular site. By placing a program in each point of the triangle (housing a youth hostel, a kindergarten and offices) they offer maximum privacy while allowing them a closeness and continuity of space, organized around a garden, like a cloister of calm in the center of the city. The lifting of the mass of the programme at the corners illuminates and activates the adjacent public spaces and creates a continuity from outside to inside of the building.