The façades and roofs are treated with an expanded metal (©Métal Déployé) mounted on big frames, with a very specific colour inspired by the building’s context, which combines orange-hued interlocking tile roofs and industrial brick chimneys recalling the industrial past of the site 

The Forum of Saint-Louis, France, is set on a vast piece of land close to the city-centre in an area which mixes different scales and uses: it remains a residential area mainly made up of low-height houses, mingled with some characterless, largesized collective buildings.