环境
 CONTEXT

Villerupt是洛林地区的一座城镇，位于与卢森堡的交界处，其所在的场地曾经盛产铁矿石。随着开采范围的迅速扩大，这里的居住人口从1861年的560人增加到了一个世纪后的1.6万多人。许多意大利人迁往该地以填补开采和加工材料所需的数万个工作岗位。这一过程持续了四代人，直至当地资源走向枯竭。

50多年后的今天，许多Villerupt的居民仍然留恋着他们的意大利“根系”，他们每年都会举办全国范围的意大利电影节。另一方面，几乎所有的工业设施都已拆除，但景观仍然留有当年的种种痕迹。巨型的挡土墙成为最壮观的存在。该项目就建造在其中一座墙壁的脚下。

Villerupt is a small town in Lorraine, built on the border with Luxembourg on a subsoil that was once full of iron ore. It followed the huge expansion of the exploitation of this resource, growing from 560 inhabitants in 1861 to over 16,000 a century later. Many Italians will come to fill the tens of thousands of jobs needed to extract and process millions of tons of material. Four generations will follow one another until the resource was exhausted.

More than fifty years later, a large number of Villeruptians remain attached to their Italian roots and Villerupt organizes an annual Italian film festival of national scope. On the other hand, almost all industrial facilities have been dismantled, but the landscape retains many vestiges of this period. Giant retaining walls are the most spectacular. It is at the foot of one of them that the Arch is built.

▼项目概览，Overall view © Guillaume Amat

问题与挑战 ISSUES/ CHALLENGES

Villerupt是Alzette山谷中修建的一连串城市的中心。这些城市因为相同的工业历史彼此联结，如今又因为卢森堡对劳动力的大量需求而联系在一起。它们共同涉及一个大型的联合项目，后者旨在清理大片的工业废地，并建设一个蓬勃发展的新城区。L’Arche是具有象征意义的第一座建筑，其建设目标是与卢森堡的Esch-sur-Alzette地区相互联合，一同夺得“欧洲文化之都”的称号——该目标在2022年项目交付之前便已实现。

L’Arche被构想为一个多元的文化空间，结合了数字艺术、创意产业和多种艺术实践。在这里，人们可以享用各类设施，例如酒吧餐厅、电影院、表演厅、制作实验室和沉浸式的数字艺术画廊等等。

Villerupt is the center of a string of municipalities built in the Alzette valley. These neighbors, united by the same industrial history, are now all linked to the massive demand for labor called for by Luxembourg. These municipalities have come together in a major joint project to clean up a vast industrial wasteland and build a new district with a future. Symbolically, the first building to be erected in this area was L’Arche, with the aim of obtaining the title of “European Capital of Culture” in partnership with its Luxembourg neighbor, Esch-sur-Alzette. The goal was reached in 2022 even before its final delivery.

L’Arche has been programmed as a hybrid cultural space where digital arts, creative industries and multiple artistic practices meet. It is a place of life and sharing where you can find a bar-restaurant, a cinema, a performance hall, a fablab and an immersive digital art gallery.

▼设计概念方案，Proposal of the project © K architectures

概念 CONCEPT

项目建造在一座宏伟不朽的墙脚下，这座石砌的墙壁又高又厚，支撑着一个技术性的平台，用于卸载开采出来的矿石，然后再将其运往下方的钢铁厂。面对这处几乎可以作为《权利的游戏》中城墙的灵感源泉的壮美景观，以及塑造了具有显著意大利特征的地区的工人阶级历史，Karine Herman和Jérôme Sigwalt从这一前所未见的环境中获得了灵感。

The Arch is built at the foot of a monumental wall. This high and thick wall, built of stone, supported a technical platform on which the extracted ore was unloaded before being transported to the steel mills below. Faced with this striking landscape that could have inspired the “wall” of the series “Game of Thrones”, faced with this working class history that has creolized the region with a strong Italian consonance, Karine Herman and Jérôme Sigwalt were inspired by an unprecedented context.

▼建筑外观，Exterior view © Guillaume Amat

他们提出的叙事性建筑创造了一种特别的、甚至是绝无仅有的形式：巨大的矿物形态与围绕着它的不合比例的墙壁产生出一种强大的力量。设计者还在文章中提到了位于不远处的另一座巨型挡土建筑，它根据拱廊原理被建造成蜂窝状。这一经久不衰的主题使人联想到大约2000年前在意大利建造的一座相似的支撑结构：罗马斗兽场。这一次，同样也是在意大利，建筑师从这一几乎具有普遍性的参照物中找到了灵感。

Their narrative architecture has invented a particularly singular, even endemic form. Its massive and mineral morphology responds with the same power to the disproportionate wall that borders it. His writing also refers to another gigantic retaining structure built not far away and which is honeycombed according to the principle of arcades. A timeless theme that is reminiscent of a similar support structure built in Italy some 2000 years ago, the Colosseum in Rome. It is also in Italy that the architects were inspired by an almost universal reference.

▼柱廊，Arcade © Guillaume Amat