9-9 bis Cultural Complex, Oignies Building Restoration, French Commercial Project, Architecture Images
9-9 bis Cultural Complex in Oignies
Industrial Architecture, Restaurant + Bar Building Development in France – design by Hérault Arnod architectures
5 Mar 2018
9-9 bis Cultural Complex
Design: Hérault Arnod architectures
Location: Oignies, France
9-9 bis Transformation of a Former Mine Site Into a Cultural Complex

The Oignies coal mine closed in 1990, leaving a whole population and its industrial mining heritage in disarray (pithead buildings, industrial buildings, head frames). The project to reinstate this territory marked by decades of mining operations, began in 2005 with the competition mounted by the Hénin-Carvin Intermunicipal Council (14 municipalities, 125,000 population). Hérault Arnod?s competition-winning project proposes a program based on music and sound, in memory of the massive noise produced by this industrial site when in production, now fallen silent in its abandonment.
The project, with its emphasis on the touristic and cultural qualities of the site, consists of a general masterplan, a redrawing of the landscape and access routes, conversions of the listed machine building* and the entire ?salle des pendus?, as well as the construction of new buildings: an office complex, in extension of an existing workshop, and the Métaphone®, a piece of experimental architecture that is simultaneously a concert hall and an urban musical instrument (c...