Court of Audit Head quarter
PALCE : Dakar
MASTER OF WORK : The Court of Audit
PROJECT MANAGER : Archi Concept International
COMPANY : Sattar
DESCRIPTION : 2 Basements, Ground Floor, Mezzanine, 5 Floors, 231 Offices,
1 courtroom, 4 training workshops, 1 restaurant, 100 parking spaces
ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH
The architectural part of the project combines geometric shapes that are fundamentally simple.
From the union of proportions and materials can emanate a sense of spirituality that will be felt by future occupants sensitive to the profound qualities of its architecture.
This approach offers us the possibility of an architecture combining « traditional and modernity ».
The geographical argument, is based on the real genius of the place that expresses itself in the way our building takes advantage of the poetic proximity of the Boulevard of the Republic.
It serves as a benchmark for the establishment of the future Headquarters of the Court of Auditors and makes it possible to transpose a reading to the passer by its verticality thanks to the inclined cone and its gateways ordering a perfect alignment of the boulevard.
We also see implanted trees that give a harmonious order throughout the course.
The program contains approximately 17,000 m2 of surfaces spread over the five upper levels and two lower levels including a semi-underground representing part of the subsoil.
Above, behind the slenderness of the cone, four floors of offices are connected by circulations, internal bridges and vertical circulations correctly positioned.
To complete these architectural components, a pinched volume cone-shaped contains atypical elements of the program, including the courtroom, meeting rooms, library, restaurant, cafeteria, and the floor of the First President of the Court of Accounts and the Prosecutor General’s Floor.
Our approach is to make a building by the image powerful enough to reflect the power of the occupants in terms of public building.
But such a simplistic party must be inhabited by a particular force.
To reach it, we are working on the dissociation and interweaving of architectural constituents also on the writing of the constituents themselves, elaborated down to the smallest details « .
Thus positioned the inclined cone on a surface of 200m2 on the ground and a height of about 26 m inside the atrium, offers the work a picture and a very impressive signal to the dimension of the Court of Auditors if its vocation and its public utility are taken into account.
The cladding textures confirm the cultural anchoring by the materials and colors used in the natural wood and the gray glazing.
