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40 PROJECT REPORT: CULTURAL, CIVIC & FAITH BUILDINGS


The building would be viewable from all sides, presenting the opportunity to provide aesthetic interest to visitors


building on its reputation established with the completion of a theatre in Montreuil in the eastern Paris suburbs, in 2007. Recent completed schemes include the Conservatoire of Music, Dance and Dramatic Arts in Belfort, in the Franche- Comté region, and a new model of Media Library in Thionville, also in Lorraine, and projects further afield such as Library and Theatre in Isbergues, Pas de Calais. Projects are characterised by a focus on precise design, an embracing of materiality, and minimalistic cantilevered forms, plus an intent to create interesting public space internally as well as externally. The theatre forms part of a broader regeneration of the Place des Allies, also home to the shopping centre, which was in a state of decline. It forms the third point of a triangle with the ‘mall’ and town hall forming the other two, therefore occupies a prominent civil position. Two major roads run east-west direction to the south of the site, and the building sits at an angle to a smaller road running alongside it into Place des Allies. Because the site slopes downwards to the south, the architects submitted a design that included a forecourt to the north and a further square to the south west, giving the benefit of new public space for the town accessed off the square.


Design


The building would be viewable from all sides, presenting the opportunity to provide aesthetic interest to visitors and the passing populace from all angles. Due to the theatre being surrounded by modest family houses and other low rise buildings, the architects were careful to moderate their approach while creating a strong visual presence, seemingly without precedent. The result is a strikingly minimalist, angular white form. The project architect Dominique Coulon


tells ADF that as part of “setting up an energetic dialogue with heterogeneous urban landscape”, the design was developed to have a “strong plasticity,” adding: “We wanted the white volumes to stand out from the landscape.” He says the intent was for the building “to appear as a sparkling gem; to us the project had to become the symbol of renewal of the town.” Coulon says that the need to distinguish the building from its surroundings was the overarching design ambition: “What mattered to us was obtaining a homoge- nous white envelope. We wanted the theatre to detach itself from the context, for the building to stand apart and embrace its


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