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The medical center sets up in a town between Lens and Henin Beaumont, in a very strong context of industrial workers housing, specific to the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin. The urban codes of the town enforces architects to use red bricks as a cladding material, and double-pitched roofs.

We have made the decision to use these constraints to design the volume with an inverted gable-roof, V shaped, which provide us to create spacious and generous spaces in doctor's offices and in the waiting area. This area is shared with the circulation space, and is split into different subareas by the wooden partition walls, which braced plywood panels are left exposed and used as a finishing coat.

At the lower parts of the façade, a vertical frame is set up with the cladding bricks. This frame is inverted on the upper part of the walls to become horizontal and traditionnal.

The building implementation limits, adjacent to a well-traveled road, have been planned to provide medical offices to open themselves to the outside while preserving the intimacy of the customers.