Project name
LAuRA Foot – Tola Vologe
Year
2021
Project location
Lyon, France
Architectural project
Bruno Saulnier Architecte
Lamm furniture
E4000 bench — Lucci and Orlandini design
Photographer
Laurent Gueneau
For the LAuRA Foot Sports Centre—a centre of excellence dedicated to football education in France—LAMM supplied 42 E4000 study benches designed by Lucci and Orlandini. This integrated seating system combines rationality and essentiality, with the aim of furnishing the auditorium of the large sports centre in Tola Vologe. Here, the recovery of a group of buildings from the era of Tony Garnier, forerunner of the rationalist language, has created a centre with 80 beds, classrooms, changing rooms, common areas, and fitness rooms for young athletes. The project, developed under the supervision of the architects of the Ministry of Culture, is signed by Bruno Saulnier Architecte. The most precious room is the auditorium, where the Lucci and Orlandini study benches were installed in straight rows on stepped tiers, with a spacing of 50 cm. Equipped with tip-up tables, the study benches have a seat, backrest, and writing surfaces in oak laminate by Abet Laminati. The seats have been chosen in the version with automatic cushioned return. The structures are painted in semi-matte black.