What’s new : Dominique Coulon & Associés
“I like buildings that you don’t understand at first glance.” Dominique Coulon, who founded his office in Strasbourg in 1989, manages oblique volumes in such a way as to create “multiple readings” of a same space. This together with his expertly used taste for colour make his work special on the French architectural scene.
![Théâtre Théodore Gouvy - Freyming Merlebach © Eugeni Pons](https://www.larchitecturedaujourdhui.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/01_FREYMING-MERLEBACH_©Eugeni-Pons.png)
Now working in Paris region as well as in Alsace, the architect has completed since September 2016 no fewer than five public facilities using characteristic geometrical shapes – five beautifully finished buildings. The diagonal circulation of the centre sportif des Droits de l’Homme (Human Rights Sports Centre) in Strasbourg echoes the curves of the Thionville Multimedia Library: when it comes to “making space flow”, Dominique Coulon is not dogmatic.
![Théâtre Théodore Gouvy - Freyming Merlebach © Eugeni Pons](https://www.larchitecturedaujourdhui.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/09_FREYMING-MERLEBACH_©Thibaut-Muller.png)
As for colour, he uses it to distinguish the programme’s elements and to create surprise, as in the Théodore Gouvy Theatre in Freyming- Merbelach, where huge pristine areas of untreated plaster contrast with a flamboyant theatre.
![Médiathèque [3e lieu] - Thionville © Eugeni Pons](https://www.larchitecturedaujourdhui.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/21_THIONVILLE_CoulonAss.-Thionville42499_©Eugeni-Pons.png)
Find Dominique Coulon, Franklin Azzi and OMA in the news of the AA’s issue n°423, available in our online shop !