A NEW CINEMA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
The project has two main aims:
- To showcase the fi lm theatres and visually identify them as physical spaces, as much from within the building as from without.
- To showcase the films, this time directly on the facade. Here the films themselves, rather than the theatres, take their place ... The facades are covered in a kind of huge curtain of LEDs, which is used to screen a range of animation: fi lm extracts, stills, colours and abstract images can be used to bring the facade to life.
These are the means by which the cinema hopes to resume its position within the city: internally, the architecture aims to display the cinema’s unusual and spectacular volumes, while externally it envelops itself in fi lm extracts and moving images, which also speak of cinema ....
An assembly of theatres, stacked and slotted together
The fi lm theatres are arranged within the building so that virtually every volume is visible and identifiable. The contents of the project form a sort of vertical sculpture, where the theatres slot into one another like a puzzle. The tiered seating in the theatres is made visible on its underside, forming magnificent stepped ceilings. These ceilings are then extended into the adjacent space to create partially tiered lobby areas: little amphitheatres that slope down towards the theatre entrances. These create spaces for informal projections, supplementary spaces where yet again cinema is present and disseminated.
It is almost as though the stalls in the fi lm theatres had reached out beyond their boundaries to welcome the public into a universe bathed in fi lm and projections ... The public is welcomed in a vast space beneath tiers of theatre seating As already mentioned, the aim was to make the project more fluid and accessible to all members of the public: entrance is made via a large hall, which runs the full depth of the building and links the Boulevard de Général Leclerc directly to the Rue d’Alésia.
Within this vast, light and airy space are all the reception services: first in line from the Boulevard entrance are ticket sales, an information point, automated ticket and information points and refreshments, with a seating area and a cafe. Beyond these, to the left, is access to the different theatres, above and below, and then a quieter space towards the Rue d’Alésia entrance, with areas for screening films. This sculpted space is tucked into a hollow beneath the tiered seating of one of the theatres above. All the circulation interlinks within the majestic, triple-height atrium. A series of escalators and walkways behind the facade lead to the different mezzanine levels and upper-level theatres. The public can be seen, and can move around to look at the spaces from below or from above, as well as enjoying views onto the outside world.
Within this array of stairs, walkways and escalators, large areas of tiered seating are arranged. These punctuate the public spaces, providing further spaces for sitting and chatting before going in to see a film. With their backs to the facade, these little amphitheatres address the fi lm theatre wall, onto which moving images can be projected and viewed from the banked seating. A sneak preview of the film, for example ...
#France , #cinema , #interior , #lighting , #interior_design , #renovation
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The project has two main aims:
- To showcase the fi lm theatres and visually identify them as physical spaces, as much from within the building as from without.
- To showcase the films, this time directly on the facade. Here the films themselves, rather than the theatres, take their place ... The facades are covered in a kind of huge curtain of LEDs, which is used to screen a range of animation: fi lm extracts, stills, colours and abstract images can be used to bring the facade to life.
These are the means by which the cinema hopes to resume its position within the city: internally, the architecture aims to display the cinema’s unusual and spectacular volumes, while externally it envelops itself in fi lm extracts and moving images, which also speak of cinema ....
An assembly of theatres, stacked and slotted together
The fi lm theatres are arranged within the building so that virtually every volume is visible and identifiable. The contents of the project form a sort of vertical sculpture, where the theatres slot into one another like a puzzle. The tiered seating in the theatres is made visible on its underside, forming magnificent stepped ceilings. These ceilings are then extended into the adjacent space to create partially tiered lobby areas: little amphitheatres that slope down towards the theatre entrances. These create spaces for informal projections, supplementary spaces where yet again cinema is present and disseminated.
It is almost as though the stalls in the fi lm theatres had reached out beyond their boundaries to welcome the public into a universe bathed in fi lm and projections ... The public is welcomed in a vast space beneath tiers of theatre seating As already mentioned, the aim was to make the project more fluid and accessible to all members of the public: entrance is made via a large hall, which runs the full depth of the building and links the Boulevard de Général Leclerc directly to the Rue d’Alésia.
Within this vast, light and airy space are all the reception services: first in line from the Boulevard entrance are ticket sales, an information point, automated ticket and information points and refreshments, with a seating area and a cafe. Beyond these, to the left, is access to the different theatres, above and below, and then a quieter space towards the Rue d’Alésia entrance, with areas for screening films. This sculpted space is tucked into a hollow beneath the tiered seating of one of the theatres above. All the circulation interlinks within the majestic, triple-height atrium. A series of escalators and walkways behind the facade lead to the different mezzanine levels and upper-level theatres. The public can be seen, and can move around to look at the spaces from below or from above, as well as enjoying views onto the outside world.
Within this array of stairs, walkways and escalators, large areas of tiered seating are arranged. These punctuate the public spaces, providing further spaces for sitting and chatting before going in to see a film. With their backs to the facade, these little amphitheatres address the fi lm theatre wall, onto which moving images can be projected and viewed from the banked seating. A sneak preview of the film, for example ...
#France , #cinema , #interior , #lighting , #interior_design , #renovation
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NO.68.
Domain of Biar Reception Room / Brengues Le Pavec architectes
• Architects: Brengues Le Pavec architectes
• Location: Route de Lavérune, Montpellier, France
• Architects in Charge: Julien Brengues, Lionel Le Pavec, Cléo Lévêque, Magali Richard
• Area: 260.0 m2
• Project Year: 2017
• Manufacturers: Sfel, Valchromat
• Clients: Domaine de Biar
The imposing grand ballroom of the 18th century Folie de Montpellier, emits a light and contemporary note. Following several years of restoration by the château's owner, the Domaine de Biar is identifiable by its historical and prestigious character. The renovation of the new reception hall is a highlight, offering visitors a dialogue between past and present. The use of materials and textures such as steel, glass, wood and concrete complement the nobility of the original materials. The absence of a visual link between the new and the old spaces underlines the humility of the project. The wide openings in the great hall, provide a strong connection to the estate's park and its English garden. The brightness of the concrete flooring contrasts with the texture of the stone. At the far end of the hall, an area clad in black, conceals the bar and the kitchen on the ground floor and the bathroom on the floor above. While in the hall, the monumental fireplace imposes its majesty. The golden staircase is used to access the first floor
where a glass footbridge leads to an area for the orchestra, offering a view of the entire space. Lightness and humility are the watchwords of this project.
& The Domain
A true Eco-Lodge located at the gates to Montpellier (7 km from the historic centre and 15 km from the sea), the Domaine de Biar is surrounded by a 50-hectare bower of greenery. This former royal agricultural estate underwent a complete eco-renovation before opening its doors to the public in 2015.
Biar was built as a “folie” in Montpellier (a place where the nobility of the “Ancien Regime” went to enjoy nature). The landscape is made up of pools, an English park and hiking trails along the river where horses and bulls graze.
Today Biar offers its visitors luxurious guest rooms. The vestiges of the past blend successfully with contemporary furniture and the comfort of superb bathrooms. Each room is unique and tells the history of the château, while offering a journey back in time.
Furnished apartments and different meeting rooms are also available for guests.
Respect for the environment and heritage is associated with the ambition of bringing the finest quality service to the clients. The best technology is at the service of the Eco-Lodge and its clients.
The meeting rooms also offer different dimensions, themes and accessories to adapt to the needs of the guests.
Along the avenues of plane-trees one can imagine horses roaming freely, bulls, wine cellars …. Biar has not forgotten its history and its original agricultural activity.
5 bedrooms including 1 suite and 2 twin rooms.
Additional facilities: an English garden, a 50 ha park, ranches and events in Camargue, secure parking, a fitness room, an outdoor swimming pool, a solarium, a hammam, Wi-Fi and handicapped access.
#France , #detail , #interior, #interior_design , #hotel
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Domain of Biar Reception Room / Brengues Le Pavec architectes
• Architects: Brengues Le Pavec architectes
• Location: Route de Lavérune, Montpellier, France
• Architects in Charge: Julien Brengues, Lionel Le Pavec, Cléo Lévêque, Magali Richard
• Area: 260.0 m2
• Project Year: 2017
• Manufacturers: Sfel, Valchromat
• Clients: Domaine de Biar
The imposing grand ballroom of the 18th century Folie de Montpellier, emits a light and contemporary note. Following several years of restoration by the château's owner, the Domaine de Biar is identifiable by its historical and prestigious character. The renovation of the new reception hall is a highlight, offering visitors a dialogue between past and present. The use of materials and textures such as steel, glass, wood and concrete complement the nobility of the original materials. The absence of a visual link between the new and the old spaces underlines the humility of the project. The wide openings in the great hall, provide a strong connection to the estate's park and its English garden. The brightness of the concrete flooring contrasts with the texture of the stone. At the far end of the hall, an area clad in black, conceals the bar and the kitchen on the ground floor and the bathroom on the floor above. While in the hall, the monumental fireplace imposes its majesty. The golden staircase is used to access the first floor
where a glass footbridge leads to an area for the orchestra, offering a view of the entire space. Lightness and humility are the watchwords of this project.
& The Domain
A true Eco-Lodge located at the gates to Montpellier (7 km from the historic centre and 15 km from the sea), the Domaine de Biar is surrounded by a 50-hectare bower of greenery. This former royal agricultural estate underwent a complete eco-renovation before opening its doors to the public in 2015.
Biar was built as a “folie” in Montpellier (a place where the nobility of the “Ancien Regime” went to enjoy nature). The landscape is made up of pools, an English park and hiking trails along the river where horses and bulls graze.
Today Biar offers its visitors luxurious guest rooms. The vestiges of the past blend successfully with contemporary furniture and the comfort of superb bathrooms. Each room is unique and tells the history of the château, while offering a journey back in time.
Furnished apartments and different meeting rooms are also available for guests.
Respect for the environment and heritage is associated with the ambition of bringing the finest quality service to the clients. The best technology is at the service of the Eco-Lodge and its clients.
The meeting rooms also offer different dimensions, themes and accessories to adapt to the needs of the guests.
Along the avenues of plane-trees one can imagine horses roaming freely, bulls, wine cellars …. Biar has not forgotten its history and its original agricultural activity.
5 bedrooms including 1 suite and 2 twin rooms.
Additional facilities: an English garden, a 50 ha park, ranches and events in Camargue, secure parking, a fitness room, an outdoor swimming pool, a solarium, a hammam, Wi-Fi and handicapped access.
#France , #detail , #interior, #interior_design , #hotel
@revitalization
NO.84.
EN / ARCHIEE
• Architects: ARCHIEE
• Location: 7 rue de condé 75006 Paris, France
• Lead Architects: Yusuke Kinoshita & Daisuke Sekine
• Branding: Canaria
• Client: TOW / EN
• Area: 150.0 m2
• Project Year: 2018
• Manufacturers: SLV
Text description provided by the architects.
Introduction
This project is the interior design of a boutique for a new Japanese cosmetic brand. An old 18th century building in the center of Paris was chosen as first shop. This brand sells around 100 types of cosmetic essence products and each customer can create an original product by mixing products. The name of the brand “en” literally means “Beauty” in Japanese.
Concepts
The Japanese phoneme “en” means not only “Beauty” but also “Circle” and “Connection”. The design concept is inspired by these three meanings of “en“.
-Circle-
As the existing venue has a long history and the quality of space, most of existing structural elements were preserved. But new partitions were created to meet the requirements of functions. All of the partitions are composed in circle forms to create soft rounded internal spaces, which are suitable for private uses as counseling, treatment, massage and essence blending. The internal surfaces of the circle spaces are finished in white to express a pure space.
-Connection-
The space cut off by the circle partitions connects all the required functions. This remaining space between the existing walls and the integrated circle partitions creates a geometrically curious form and an original circulation with an aesthetical experience. The customer cannot get into each service rooms directly, but must walk along a winding path toward the destination. This method that let the visitors walk along and enhance his expectation is typical Japanese way of hospitality, as in the traditional tea culture.
-Beauty-
The external surfaces of the circle partitions are finished in polished brass to bring a distorted and warm reflection. This beautiful expanded space creates the feeling for the visitor step into an elegant and extraordinary world.
Composition
The existing spaces were divided into 4 main rooms: 2 rooms with stone vaulted spaces in the basement and 2 rooms finished with white plaster on the ground floor. A different scale of circles is composed for each room to create a functional plan. Room1: the entrance and the boutique, Room2: the counseling and the treatment space, Room3: the hall and the massage space, Room4: the product gallery and the blending counter. By passing through each step, the customer gets deeply into the world of “en” beauty.
Display
The impressive point of this brand is to exhibit all its products. This reminds the excitement in a wine cellar. The display of products is inspired by the method of storage of French wineries. Each bottle is displayed separately with special lighting. The boxes for storage, which were made with Japanese paulownia wood, are also stacked and displayed to create a cellar atmosphere.
#France , #Japon , #shop, #store , #interior_design , #lighting , #stair
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EN / ARCHIEE
• Architects: ARCHIEE
• Location: 7 rue de condé 75006 Paris, France
• Lead Architects: Yusuke Kinoshita & Daisuke Sekine
• Branding: Canaria
• Client: TOW / EN
• Area: 150.0 m2
• Project Year: 2018
• Manufacturers: SLV
Text description provided by the architects.
Introduction
This project is the interior design of a boutique for a new Japanese cosmetic brand. An old 18th century building in the center of Paris was chosen as first shop. This brand sells around 100 types of cosmetic essence products and each customer can create an original product by mixing products. The name of the brand “en” literally means “Beauty” in Japanese.
Concepts
The Japanese phoneme “en” means not only “Beauty” but also “Circle” and “Connection”. The design concept is inspired by these three meanings of “en“.
-Circle-
As the existing venue has a long history and the quality of space, most of existing structural elements were preserved. But new partitions were created to meet the requirements of functions. All of the partitions are composed in circle forms to create soft rounded internal spaces, which are suitable for private uses as counseling, treatment, massage and essence blending. The internal surfaces of the circle spaces are finished in white to express a pure space.
-Connection-
The space cut off by the circle partitions connects all the required functions. This remaining space between the existing walls and the integrated circle partitions creates a geometrically curious form and an original circulation with an aesthetical experience. The customer cannot get into each service rooms directly, but must walk along a winding path toward the destination. This method that let the visitors walk along and enhance his expectation is typical Japanese way of hospitality, as in the traditional tea culture.
-Beauty-
The external surfaces of the circle partitions are finished in polished brass to bring a distorted and warm reflection. This beautiful expanded space creates the feeling for the visitor step into an elegant and extraordinary world.
Composition
The existing spaces were divided into 4 main rooms: 2 rooms with stone vaulted spaces in the basement and 2 rooms finished with white plaster on the ground floor. A different scale of circles is composed for each room to create a functional plan. Room1: the entrance and the boutique, Room2: the counseling and the treatment space, Room3: the hall and the massage space, Room4: the product gallery and the blending counter. By passing through each step, the customer gets deeply into the world of “en” beauty.
Display
The impressive point of this brand is to exhibit all its products. This reminds the excitement in a wine cellar. The display of products is inspired by the method of storage of French wineries. Each bottle is displayed separately with special lighting. The boxes for storage, which were made with Japanese paulownia wood, are also stacked and displayed to create a cellar atmosphere.
#France , #Japon , #shop, #store , #interior_design , #lighting , #stair
@revitalization
NO.107.
Gallo-roman Museum Vesuna / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
MUSEUM, PÉRIGUEUX, FRANCE
• Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
• Area:6900.0 m²
• Year:2003
• Manufacturers: Goppion, Holz-Bois
• Competition: Alexiane Rossi
• Pilot Study: Laurent Niget
• Studies: Didier Brault
• Construction: Bertrand Beissel, François Leininger, Gaston Tolila
• Competition Architects: Jean Philippe Godin, Thierry Marco
• Pilot Study Architects: Cyril Ruiz
• Studies Architects: Isabelle Agostini, Cristiano Benzoni
• Graphic Design: Sabine Rosant
• Museography: Viviane Morteau, Nathalie Sasso, François Leininger, Gaston Tolila
• Structural Engineering: OVE ARUP
• Lots Techniques: OVE ARUP
• Fire Protection: M. CASSO
• Lighting Museography: Observatoire n° 1 Georges BerneERN
The Museum houses the remains of a grand Gallo-Roman residence, adorned with painted plaster work, known as Domus de Vésone. Jean Nouvel won the competition for the design in 1993.
This site must be protected and preserved with nobility, clarity and the sensibility of today’s culture
/Jean Nouvel
Text description provided by the architects. To Protect and to Reveal
It is perhaps the piles of amnesiac architecture in and around our cities, and the decades of accumulation which causes us to better cite the importance of lost civilizations, and of remains which are increasingly read today like true roots more than simple traces.
With Vesunna in Perigueux, there only remain contradictions, unknowns, and strata lost in the memory of the soil! The archaeological site of the Domus des Bosquets is the tangible illustration of the town buried underground which gave birth to Perigueux. The site needs to be revealed and protected with magnanimity, tact, clarity, and culture, by the means of architecture which would have the formidable privilege of residing next to ancient ghosts. The relationship of history with modernity is an architectural source of great poetry on the condition of being frank, sensitive and right within the legitimate act of building. A metaphysical dimension is born of the vertiginous gap between two fragments of the real confronted in the space of a few meters and in the time of a couple thousand years. Conscious of the risks of the situation, I proposed the simplest observation of protecting and revealing.
An inhabited, planted double-wall would be constructed as a screen encompassing an archaeological dig of the Tour de Vesone, the Villa des Bosquets and the 3rd century wall at the northern extremity. The villa will be covered by a big, high, simple umbrella, with the underside absolutely flat. Using calculated geometry inherited from the Gallo-Roman plan, it would be transcribed with a plan, a pretext to introducing a little elegant graphics of abstract sobriety which exclusively belong to the arts of our times. All the memories of the place will be both protected and revealed to our eyes of today.
#France, #lighting , #archeology , #museum , #interior_design, #landscape, #glass
@revitalization
Gallo-roman Museum Vesuna / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
MUSEUM, PÉRIGUEUX, FRANCE
• Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
• Area:6900.0 m²
• Year:2003
• Manufacturers: Goppion, Holz-Bois
• Competition: Alexiane Rossi
• Pilot Study: Laurent Niget
• Studies: Didier Brault
• Construction: Bertrand Beissel, François Leininger, Gaston Tolila
• Competition Architects: Jean Philippe Godin, Thierry Marco
• Pilot Study Architects: Cyril Ruiz
• Studies Architects: Isabelle Agostini, Cristiano Benzoni
• Graphic Design: Sabine Rosant
• Museography: Viviane Morteau, Nathalie Sasso, François Leininger, Gaston Tolila
• Structural Engineering: OVE ARUP
• Lots Techniques: OVE ARUP
• Fire Protection: M. CASSO
• Lighting Museography: Observatoire n° 1 Georges BerneERN
The Museum houses the remains of a grand Gallo-Roman residence, adorned with painted plaster work, known as Domus de Vésone. Jean Nouvel won the competition for the design in 1993.
This site must be protected and preserved with nobility, clarity and the sensibility of today’s culture
/Jean Nouvel
Text description provided by the architects. To Protect and to Reveal
It is perhaps the piles of amnesiac architecture in and around our cities, and the decades of accumulation which causes us to better cite the importance of lost civilizations, and of remains which are increasingly read today like true roots more than simple traces.
With Vesunna in Perigueux, there only remain contradictions, unknowns, and strata lost in the memory of the soil! The archaeological site of the Domus des Bosquets is the tangible illustration of the town buried underground which gave birth to Perigueux. The site needs to be revealed and protected with magnanimity, tact, clarity, and culture, by the means of architecture which would have the formidable privilege of residing next to ancient ghosts. The relationship of history with modernity is an architectural source of great poetry on the condition of being frank, sensitive and right within the legitimate act of building. A metaphysical dimension is born of the vertiginous gap between two fragments of the real confronted in the space of a few meters and in the time of a couple thousand years. Conscious of the risks of the situation, I proposed the simplest observation of protecting and revealing.
An inhabited, planted double-wall would be constructed as a screen encompassing an archaeological dig of the Tour de Vesone, the Villa des Bosquets and the 3rd century wall at the northern extremity. The villa will be covered by a big, high, simple umbrella, with the underside absolutely flat. Using calculated geometry inherited from the Gallo-Roman plan, it would be transcribed with a plan, a pretext to introducing a little elegant graphics of abstract sobriety which exclusively belong to the arts of our times. All the memories of the place will be both protected and revealed to our eyes of today.
#France, #lighting , #archeology , #museum , #interior_design, #landscape, #glass
@revitalization
NO.124
National Museum Clemenceau / TITAN
MOUILLERON-SAINT-GERMAIN, FRANCE
• client : ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, service des Musées de France, DRAC des Pays de la Loire
• Year: 2019
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Technical information on the Clemenceau National Museum:
Program - the Clemenceau National Museum
Contracting authority - Ministry of Culture and Communication, Museum Service of France, DRAC Pays de la Loire
address - Mouilleron en Pareds - France
Budget - € 1,800,000 including scenography € 400,000
Surface - 600 m2
Team - titan (architects-scenographers), the baroque office (scenographers), up and down (landscape designer), svelt (graphic designers), 8.18 (lighting designer), mazedia (multimedia designer), ecb (economist), energy tribe (ing . fluids), arest (ing. structure), symbiance (acoustician)
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Technical information on the reception pavilion of the Maison de Clemenceau:
Program - reconstruction of the reception pavilion of the Clemenceau house
Client - Center des monuments nationaux, Direction de la Conservation des Monuments et des Collections
Address - Saint-Vincent sur Jard - France
Budget - € 500,000 including landscaping - € 80,000
Surface - 125 m2
Team - titan (landscape architects), ecb (economist), luc moreau (ing. Cfo-cfa), inddigo (ing. Fluids), arest (ing. Structure).
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Born in 1841 in the Vendée, a coastal department of western France, Georges Clemenceau was a politician and journalist – a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and, as prime minister – a major contributor to the Allied victory in World War I.
Today, his native house in Mouilleron-en-Pareds is transformed into a museum, pulling his private world and public life into the public realm. The project emerged from its location, with respect to its historical structure. Designed to give the opportunity to begin a new narrative, the building seeks to uncover both its original and current purpose. The concept proposes contemporary interventions with minimum visual compromise to the building’s original appearance. From one perspective, the architecture follows, both in compositional and museological terms, the traditional, domestic character of a house. Its essence and rustic materials are preserved, leaving ample space for the museography, designed with scenographers Le Bureau Baroque.
The new elements are interwoven into the visitor’s path to activate a unique experience, following the rhythm of the existing architecture. To create a link with the community, the adjacent barn is reconstructed to add new programmatic opportunities for concerts, screenings and exhibitions. The museum reveals a new perspective on how art and architecture would benefit from each other’s challenges, unveiling the real substance of the building to its visitors, and, through its informal learning opportunities, giving a new vantage point on history and present times. The visit is elaborated, involving all senses to create a real interaction between content, scenography and visitor. An interactive website on the internet, a combination of graphics and multimedia invite the visitor to experience the museum, creating a new public route through the building and exposition.
#France , #house, #museum , #lighting , #interior_design , #landscape , #community_center , #multi_purpose
@revitalization
National Museum Clemenceau / TITAN
MOUILLERON-SAINT-GERMAIN, FRANCE
• client : ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, service des Musées de France, DRAC des Pays de la Loire
• Year: 2019
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Technical information on the Clemenceau National Museum:
Program - the Clemenceau National Museum
Contracting authority - Ministry of Culture and Communication, Museum Service of France, DRAC Pays de la Loire
address - Mouilleron en Pareds - France
Budget - € 1,800,000 including scenography € 400,000
Surface - 600 m2
Team - titan (architects-scenographers), the baroque office (scenographers), up and down (landscape designer), svelt (graphic designers), 8.18 (lighting designer), mazedia (multimedia designer), ecb (economist), energy tribe (ing . fluids), arest (ing. structure), symbiance (acoustician)
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Technical information on the reception pavilion of the Maison de Clemenceau:
Program - reconstruction of the reception pavilion of the Clemenceau house
Client - Center des monuments nationaux, Direction de la Conservation des Monuments et des Collections
Address - Saint-Vincent sur Jard - France
Budget - € 500,000 including landscaping - € 80,000
Surface - 125 m2
Team - titan (landscape architects), ecb (economist), luc moreau (ing. Cfo-cfa), inddigo (ing. Fluids), arest (ing. Structure).
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Born in 1841 in the Vendée, a coastal department of western France, Georges Clemenceau was a politician and journalist – a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and, as prime minister – a major contributor to the Allied victory in World War I.
Today, his native house in Mouilleron-en-Pareds is transformed into a museum, pulling his private world and public life into the public realm. The project emerged from its location, with respect to its historical structure. Designed to give the opportunity to begin a new narrative, the building seeks to uncover both its original and current purpose. The concept proposes contemporary interventions with minimum visual compromise to the building’s original appearance. From one perspective, the architecture follows, both in compositional and museological terms, the traditional, domestic character of a house. Its essence and rustic materials are preserved, leaving ample space for the museography, designed with scenographers Le Bureau Baroque.
The new elements are interwoven into the visitor’s path to activate a unique experience, following the rhythm of the existing architecture. To create a link with the community, the adjacent barn is reconstructed to add new programmatic opportunities for concerts, screenings and exhibitions. The museum reveals a new perspective on how art and architecture would benefit from each other’s challenges, unveiling the real substance of the building to its visitors, and, through its informal learning opportunities, giving a new vantage point on history and present times. The visit is elaborated, involving all senses to create a real interaction between content, scenography and visitor. An interactive website on the internet, a combination of graphics and multimedia invite the visitor to experience the museum, creating a new public route through the building and exposition.
#France , #house, #museum , #lighting , #interior_design , #landscape , #community_center , #multi_purpose
@revitalization
NO.144
Champollion Museum- The Scriptures of the World
Musée Champollion - Les écritures du monde / Agence Moatti et Rivière
Description
Restoration and reconversion of a 14th century building.
Creation of permanent and temporary exhibition rooms.
Location: Figeac, France
Competition: winning project, October 2001
Year completed: 2007 (Year began 2005)
Studios: Agence Moatti et Rivière
Authors: Alain Moatti (1957 France); Henri Rivière (1965 France)
Collaborators
Project architect: Val de Vincelles Graphic design: Pierre di Sciullo Collaborator (external): Pascal Payeur, Fr Rat Engineering: Betom Toulouse Lighting: Fran Gaunand Façades: Concepta Furniture: Goppion Construction company: MGE Interiors: Goubie Others: Etandex Construction: Sotraco
Map: LatLng: (44.609741, 2.034501)
Area: 1,300 m2 HON.
Cost: 4.1 million euros excluding tax.
Project management: City of Figeac (Lot)
Typographic Moucharaby
The museum is housed in three buildings in the heritage area of the old town and articulates three themes: signify the activities of writing and deciphering texts in urban space, take part in public space, extend the history of these places.
The screen façade on place Champollion enables identification of the museum: it is a meta-phor of writing and deciphering. The old stone façade ensures continuity with the urban fabric and houses of Figeac. The screen façade is set back from the alignment and designed as a composition in glass and copper animated by alphabets. This is the polyglot typographic moucharabieh.
Between these two façades are loggias open to the public, and high up, the soleilo, a feature borrowed from the vernacular architecture of the Figeac region. The depth of the façade forms a public transition space between square and museum.
The façade reflects a blend of artisan and industrial processes.
It expresses poetic modernity inspired by living vibrating light - light that breathes and measures time. Luminous and mysterious by day, at night it is part of the lights of the town.
The façade is composed of a sheet of copper laid over a polymer film. Layered glass carries the copper sheet and film between two separating sheets of PVB.
Graphic artist designed the overall composition of this façade; he etched each letter so that it appears in positive on the copper sheet.
The world famous egyptologist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) was born in Figeac; he is the tutelary figure of this museum.
From the origins of writing to the new territories of telematic networks, the museographic itin-erary proposes several modes of entrance: graphics (the design and creation of signs, their evolution, the role of the support, handwriting, composition) ; systems and grammars (the con-struction of words and sentences, the relationship to language, phonetics); and usages (func-tions and power of writing, civilizations and society).
#France , #museum, #house, #lighting ,#interior_design , #typography , #cultural_center, #graphic_design
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Champollion Museum- The Scriptures of the World
Musée Champollion - Les écritures du monde / Agence Moatti et Rivière
Description
Restoration and reconversion of a 14th century building.
Creation of permanent and temporary exhibition rooms.
Location: Figeac, France
Competition: winning project, October 2001
Year completed: 2007 (Year began 2005)
Studios: Agence Moatti et Rivière
Authors: Alain Moatti (1957 France); Henri Rivière (1965 France)
Collaborators
Project architect: Val de Vincelles Graphic design: Pierre di Sciullo Collaborator (external): Pascal Payeur, Fr Rat Engineering: Betom Toulouse Lighting: Fran Gaunand Façades: Concepta Furniture: Goppion Construction company: MGE Interiors: Goubie Others: Etandex Construction: Sotraco
Map: LatLng: (44.609741, 2.034501)
Area: 1,300 m2 HON.
Cost: 4.1 million euros excluding tax.
Project management: City of Figeac (Lot)
Typographic Moucharaby
The museum is housed in three buildings in the heritage area of the old town and articulates three themes: signify the activities of writing and deciphering texts in urban space, take part in public space, extend the history of these places.
The screen façade on place Champollion enables identification of the museum: it is a meta-phor of writing and deciphering. The old stone façade ensures continuity with the urban fabric and houses of Figeac. The screen façade is set back from the alignment and designed as a composition in glass and copper animated by alphabets. This is the polyglot typographic moucharabieh.
Between these two façades are loggias open to the public, and high up, the soleilo, a feature borrowed from the vernacular architecture of the Figeac region. The depth of the façade forms a public transition space between square and museum.
The façade reflects a blend of artisan and industrial processes.
It expresses poetic modernity inspired by living vibrating light - light that breathes and measures time. Luminous and mysterious by day, at night it is part of the lights of the town.
The façade is composed of a sheet of copper laid over a polymer film. Layered glass carries the copper sheet and film between two separating sheets of PVB.
Graphic artist designed the overall composition of this façade; he etched each letter so that it appears in positive on the copper sheet.
The world famous egyptologist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) was born in Figeac; he is the tutelary figure of this museum.
From the origins of writing to the new territories of telematic networks, the museographic itin-erary proposes several modes of entrance: graphics (the design and creation of signs, their evolution, the role of the support, handwriting, composition) ; systems and grammars (the con-struction of words and sentences, the relationship to language, phonetics); and usages (func-tions and power of writing, civilizations and society).
#France , #museum, #house, #lighting ,#interior_design , #typography , #cultural_center, #graphic_design
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NO.160
Rehabilitation of an EHPAA of 18 Apartments Toulouse / Letellier Architectes
RÉHABILITATION ET EXTENSION POUR LA CRÉATION D'UN EHPAA (Notre Dame de la Compassion)
APARTMENTS, ADAPTIVE REUSE
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TOULOUSE, FRANCE
• Architects: Letellier Architectes
• AREA: 4,600 m² SP
• COST: € 1,700,000
• Year: 2018
• Manufacturers: AutoDesk, TECU®, Sarl Couffignal
• Client: ICADE PROMOTION
• Engineering: MATH INGENIERIE
• Acoustics: EMACOUSTIC
STRUCTURE: BERNARD BEROY
Products used in this Project: Prefabricated system, copper
Accommodation facility for the elderly
Text description provided by the architects. The old college of Foix is a building listed in the supplemen-tary inventory and classified as a Historic Monument with its keep dating from 1457.
In line with the respect of the existing architecture, an important reflection was carried out with the ABF in order to propose a modern architectural language in coherence with the old building. The fa-cade is clad with gold-coloured interlocking copper sheets.
The building blends in perfectly with its immediate surroundings and contributes to embellishing the urban space.
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In the historic heart of Toulouse, in the immediate vicinity of the Place du Capitole, the former Collège de Foix is a building both listed in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments and whose 1457 keep is classified as a historic monument. Managed by the Sisters of the Congregation Notre-Dame de la Compassion, it hosts several entities including a student residence and an EHPAD - the project to add an EHPAA is therefore in the continuity of the destination of the place. This R + 3 exten-sion coming to "close" a courtyard, the LETELLIER Architectes agency seized the opportunity to treat it as a second main courtyard, creating a parallel to the adjoining cloister. In line with respect for pre-existing classical architecture, an important reflection was carried out with the Architect of the Build-ings of France in order to propose an architectural language at the same time modern and coherent with the old buildings. The initial idea was to create a facade reminiscent of the surface of the water, with its reflections, its movements and its softness, a metaphor for a peaceful, calm life. The four lev-els are thus covered with interlocking copper sheets of golden color, and pierced with random open-ings. The building is treated as a real architectural object, which marks a new stage in the continuity of urban development. Copper, a coherent choice of material in a historic place by its traditional character, here plays the role of an epidermis. It offers spectacular light effects, of great finesse and elegance, creating a kind of mirror that dematerializes to give pride of place to the original build-ings. The sobriety of the treatment of the facings, joinery and shutters has been considered in order to accentuate this effect. The new building, with its volume and its noble materials, fits perfectly into its immediate surroundings and contributes to embellishing an urban space which was until then "unfinished".
#France, #residence , #elderly , #facade , #cooper , #gold
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Rehabilitation of an EHPAA of 18 Apartments Toulouse / Letellier Architectes
RÉHABILITATION ET EXTENSION POUR LA CRÉATION D'UN EHPAA (Notre Dame de la Compassion)
APARTMENTS, ADAPTIVE REUSE
•
TOULOUSE, FRANCE
• Architects: Letellier Architectes
• AREA: 4,600 m² SP
• COST: € 1,700,000
• Year: 2018
• Manufacturers: AutoDesk, TECU®, Sarl Couffignal
• Client: ICADE PROMOTION
• Engineering: MATH INGENIERIE
• Acoustics: EMACOUSTIC
STRUCTURE: BERNARD BEROY
Products used in this Project: Prefabricated system, copper
Accommodation facility for the elderly
Text description provided by the architects. The old college of Foix is a building listed in the supplemen-tary inventory and classified as a Historic Monument with its keep dating from 1457.
In line with the respect of the existing architecture, an important reflection was carried out with the ABF in order to propose a modern architectural language in coherence with the old building. The fa-cade is clad with gold-coloured interlocking copper sheets.
The building blends in perfectly with its immediate surroundings and contributes to embellishing the urban space.
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In the historic heart of Toulouse, in the immediate vicinity of the Place du Capitole, the former Collège de Foix is a building both listed in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments and whose 1457 keep is classified as a historic monument. Managed by the Sisters of the Congregation Notre-Dame de la Compassion, it hosts several entities including a student residence and an EHPAD - the project to add an EHPAA is therefore in the continuity of the destination of the place. This R + 3 exten-sion coming to "close" a courtyard, the LETELLIER Architectes agency seized the opportunity to treat it as a second main courtyard, creating a parallel to the adjoining cloister. In line with respect for pre-existing classical architecture, an important reflection was carried out with the Architect of the Build-ings of France in order to propose an architectural language at the same time modern and coherent with the old buildings. The initial idea was to create a facade reminiscent of the surface of the water, with its reflections, its movements and its softness, a metaphor for a peaceful, calm life. The four lev-els are thus covered with interlocking copper sheets of golden color, and pierced with random open-ings. The building is treated as a real architectural object, which marks a new stage in the continuity of urban development. Copper, a coherent choice of material in a historic place by its traditional character, here plays the role of an epidermis. It offers spectacular light effects, of great finesse and elegance, creating a kind of mirror that dematerializes to give pride of place to the original build-ings. The sobriety of the treatment of the facings, joinery and shutters has been considered in order to accentuate this effect. The new building, with its volume and its noble materials, fits perfectly into its immediate surroundings and contributes to embellishing an urban space which was until then "unfinished".
#France, #residence , #elderly , #facade , #cooper , #gold
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NO.162
RENOVATION OF NOTRE DAME SQUARE/ LETELLIER ARCHITECTES
Villefranche-de-Rougergue, France
• Architects: LETELLIER ARCHITECTES
• Area: 1 500 m² SP
• Type: square renovation
Client: CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL DE L’AVEYRON
Cost: 924 000 € HT
Fontainiste : FC URBAN DESIGNER
Paysagiste : FRANÇOISE PERSOUYRE
Ratio : 1 562 €/m2
•
--Classified as a historical monument as a whole and surrounded by arcades surmounted by flamboyant Gothic or Renaissance style residences, it has hosted every Thursday morning for almost 8 centuries one of the most picturesque markets in the Southwest.
Activities of the central fountain: its water jets tell the time; and unique in France, they dance to the rhythm of the 48 carillon bells, one of the most remarkable in the region.--
From April 2 to November 31, 2013, Eurovia Rodez carried out the renovation of Place Notre-Dame in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (12), a site classified "Bâtiment de France".
This site presented technical and town planning constraints that the agency was able to face.
The particularities of this project:
• Earthworks of the existing
• Layout of the square in paving stones according to the techniques used in the Middle Ages
• Pavement structure in gravel cement
• Stormwater systems and slotted gutters in Corten steel
• Laying of 10x25x20 limestone paving stones; recovery from old streets of the city according to cal-pinage architect
• Maximum required joint 1 cm treated by mineralization (55,000 pavers cleaned and re-calibrated before laying)
• Installation of visible bronze joint following a particular pattern
• Installation of Roman bronze numeral for luminous clock
• Jet fountain (except lot)
Were also carried out in the same spirit of limestone paving, 3 lanes located under the peripheral arcades in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Thus, the whole of the place and the arcades are renovated in paving. The collegiate church is then highlighted.
#France, #church, #square, #public_space , #lighting , #fountain ,#water
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RENOVATION OF NOTRE DAME SQUARE/ LETELLIER ARCHITECTES
Villefranche-de-Rougergue, France
• Architects: LETELLIER ARCHITECTES
• Area: 1 500 m² SP
• Type: square renovation
Client: CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL DE L’AVEYRON
Cost: 924 000 € HT
Fontainiste : FC URBAN DESIGNER
Paysagiste : FRANÇOISE PERSOUYRE
Ratio : 1 562 €/m2
•
--Classified as a historical monument as a whole and surrounded by arcades surmounted by flamboyant Gothic or Renaissance style residences, it has hosted every Thursday morning for almost 8 centuries one of the most picturesque markets in the Southwest.
Activities of the central fountain: its water jets tell the time; and unique in France, they dance to the rhythm of the 48 carillon bells, one of the most remarkable in the region.--
From April 2 to November 31, 2013, Eurovia Rodez carried out the renovation of Place Notre-Dame in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (12), a site classified "Bâtiment de France".
This site presented technical and town planning constraints that the agency was able to face.
The particularities of this project:
• Earthworks of the existing
• Layout of the square in paving stones according to the techniques used in the Middle Ages
• Pavement structure in gravel cement
• Stormwater systems and slotted gutters in Corten steel
• Laying of 10x25x20 limestone paving stones; recovery from old streets of the city according to cal-pinage architect
• Maximum required joint 1 cm treated by mineralization (55,000 pavers cleaned and re-calibrated before laying)
• Installation of visible bronze joint following a particular pattern
• Installation of Roman bronze numeral for luminous clock
• Jet fountain (except lot)
Were also carried out in the same spirit of limestone paving, 3 lanes located under the peripheral arcades in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Thus, the whole of the place and the arcades are renovated in paving. The collegiate church is then highlighted.
#France, #church, #square, #public_space , #lighting , #fountain ,#water
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NO.181
Convent Saint François / Amelia Tavella Architectes
MONASTERY, RESTORATION, EXTENSION
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• Architects: Amelia Tavella Architectes
• Area: 1000 m²
• Year: 2021
• Manufacturers: Schuco, Terre Cuite des Launes
• Lead Architect: Amelia Tavella
• Acoustic Consulting: Acoustique & Conseil
• Structural Engineer: ISB
• Historic Building Advisor: A-C Perrot
• Economist: Ingenia
• Fluids Engineers: G2I
• City: Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano
• Country: France
• Awards: TECU ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2022
An intervention of rehabilitation and extension leads to a reflection on the theme of conservation in a process of metamorphosis that embraces the ruin and returns it to contemporaneity.
The complex, perched in the wild Corsican landscape amidst rocks, woods, olive groves and small villages, appears as a fortress in which the passage of time and inactivity have allowed nature to freely take possession of the building, almost acting, before its resurrection, as a protective “armour” and structural support, like the roots of a fig tree that have become an integral part of the façade.
Here, the architect chose to conserve the ruins and replace the missing part of the volume with a perforated copper structure that re-proposes the sil-houette of the pre-existing building, while declaring the contemporary char-acter of the ex-novo building as the site of a cultural center (“Maison du Territoire”).
The choice of copper was justified by the material’s durability and ability to transform over time from a tactile and chromatic point of view, allowing the composition to narrate an evolving tale beyond any intent of “crystallizing” history.
The walls of the copper building, perforated with small panels that allow light to filter into the interior corridors, evoke the suggestion of a mashrabiyya – the traditional grid used in the architecture of Arab coun-tries to facilitate natural ventilation and control lighting – or of the stained-glass window of a church, with vibrant plays of light and shadow projected onto the interior stone walls.
A work that, tiptoeing in the footsteps of the past, exudes love for the place and its historical memory, for the building and its natural transformation from what it was into what it will be and into what it will one day no longer be, in the intimate conviction of impermanence as the only possible form of reality.
#France, #Corsica, #monastery, #convent, #ruin, #extention, #restoration, #rehabilitation, #moucharabieh, #mashrabiyya #copper, #cultural_center, #awards
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Convent Saint François / Amelia Tavella Architectes
MONASTERY, RESTORATION, EXTENSION
•
• Architects: Amelia Tavella Architectes
• Area: 1000 m²
• Year: 2021
• Manufacturers: Schuco, Terre Cuite des Launes
• Lead Architect: Amelia Tavella
• Acoustic Consulting: Acoustique & Conseil
• Structural Engineer: ISB
• Historic Building Advisor: A-C Perrot
• Economist: Ingenia
• Fluids Engineers: G2I
• City: Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano
• Country: France
• Awards: TECU ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2022
An intervention of rehabilitation and extension leads to a reflection on the theme of conservation in a process of metamorphosis that embraces the ruin and returns it to contemporaneity.
The complex, perched in the wild Corsican landscape amidst rocks, woods, olive groves and small villages, appears as a fortress in which the passage of time and inactivity have allowed nature to freely take possession of the building, almost acting, before its resurrection, as a protective “armour” and structural support, like the roots of a fig tree that have become an integral part of the façade.
Here, the architect chose to conserve the ruins and replace the missing part of the volume with a perforated copper structure that re-proposes the sil-houette of the pre-existing building, while declaring the contemporary char-acter of the ex-novo building as the site of a cultural center (“Maison du Territoire”).
The choice of copper was justified by the material’s durability and ability to transform over time from a tactile and chromatic point of view, allowing the composition to narrate an evolving tale beyond any intent of “crystallizing” history.
The walls of the copper building, perforated with small panels that allow light to filter into the interior corridors, evoke the suggestion of a mashrabiyya – the traditional grid used in the architecture of Arab coun-tries to facilitate natural ventilation and control lighting – or of the stained-glass window of a church, with vibrant plays of light and shadow projected onto the interior stone walls.
A work that, tiptoeing in the footsteps of the past, exudes love for the place and its historical memory, for the building and its natural transformation from what it was into what it will be and into what it will one day no longer be, in the intimate conviction of impermanence as the only possible form of reality.
#France, #Corsica, #monastery, #convent, #ruin, #extention, #restoration, #rehabilitation, #moucharabieh, #mashrabiyya #copper, #cultural_center, #awards
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