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- PLAtec in the Quai Branly museum, Paris
- Shopping Arcade on the Champs Elysées
- MNew Look Store, Grenoble
- New Prefecture in Vaucluse
- Renovation work on the Grandval shopping mall, Orvault
- PLAtec tables at Rendez Vous de l’Architecture in Paris
- Lafarge stand at Batimat 2003
- E. Leclerc shopping malls in Ruffec and St Amand
- Mérignac airport
- Bioscope Ungersheim
- Virgin France headquarters, Paris
- Light wells in Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham
- Pathé multiplex movie theaters in Orléans, Ivry, Turin, Conflans, Echirolles, Zürich and Liévin
- Granit tower in La Défense
- Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Grenoble
- ACCOR Restaurant, Novotel Créteil
- Les 4 temps, La Défense
- Casino France headquarters
- PLAtec in the Quai Branly museum, Paris
- Shopping Arcade on the Champs Elysées
- MNew Look Store, Grenoble
- New Prefecture in Vaucluse
- Renovation work on the Grandval shopping mall, Orvault
- PLAtec tables at Rendez Vous de l’Architecture in Paris
- Lafarge stand at Batimat 2003
- E. Leclerc shopping malls in Ruffec and St Amand
- Mérignac airport
- Bioscope Ungersheim
- Virgin France headquarters, Paris
- Light wells in Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham
- Pathé multiplex movie theaters in Orléans, Ivry, Turin, Conflans, Echirolles, Zürich and Liévin
- Granit tower in La Défense
- Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Grenoble
- ACCOR Restaurant, Novotel Créteil
- Les 4 temps, La Défense
- Casino France headquarters
2006 ›› PLAtec in the Quai Branly museum, Paris
Interview : Alain Fleury, works manager at DBS
PLAtec-shaped plasterboard used to build Jean Nouvel's wall creation
The Claude Lévi-Strauss theater in the Quai Branly museum opens out onto the gardens in a dramatic flourish of green. The amphitheater type structure is designed to close into a completely intimate space looking down on the 140 m² theatrical stage. The tiered seating facing the stage accommodates up to 399 spectators, while a further 100 or so can be seated in the terraced steps enclosing the other three sides of the stage.
Acoustic performances complement architectural creation
Adjustable curtains, created by house artistic director Issey Miyake, alternate with the random contours of the walls, to insulate the space acoustically as well as visually. The acoustician and architect worked in close collaboration to define the rhythm of the protruding blocks and cavities in the walls in order to lend a richly unpredictable aspect to the material and ensure the level of performance required in terms of absorption, insulation and acoustic reverberations. In a final touch, the lighting effects on the curtains and walls were carefully engineered to create a unique atmosphere in the space, providing the perfect backdrop for the primary arts to inspire the imagination.
Photographer: Cédric Prat
2006 ›› PLAtec in the Quai Branly museum, Paris
Interview : Alain Fleury, works manager at DBS
PLAtec-shaped plasterboard used to build Jean Nouvel's wall creation
The Claude Lévi-Strauss theater in the Quai Branly museum opens out onto the gardens in a dramatic flourish of green. The amphitheater type structure is designed to close into a completely intimate space looking down on the 140 m² theatrical stage. The tiered seating facing the stage accommodates up to 399 spectators, while a further 100 or so can be seated in the terraced steps enclosing the other three sides of the stage.
Acoustic performances complement architectural creation
Adjustable curtains, created by house artistic director Issey Miyake, alternate with the random contours of the walls, to insulate the space acoustically as well as visually. The acoustician and architect worked in close collaboration to define the rhythm of the protruding blocks and cavities in the walls in order to lend a richly unpredictable aspect to the material and ensure the level of performance required in terms of absorption, insulation and acoustic reverberations. In a final touch, the lighting effects on the curtains and walls were carefully engineered to create a unique atmosphere in the space, providing the perfect backdrop for the primary arts to inspire the imagination.
Photographer: Cédric Prat