Portalis campus lecture theatres — Aix-en-Provence
Refurbishment and stage equipment of six lecture theatres.
Launched in 2008, the Opération Campus turned the “Aix — Quartier des facultés” campus into a renovated complex meeting international standards, well structured and open to the city. The largest French-speaking university in the world, Aix-Marseille Université awards degrees across every academic field.
Five small and medium-sized lecture theatres are grouped in a 1950s building known as “Pouillon”, after the architect who designed them; from 1955 to 1966 it housed both the law faculty and the arts faculty, as the carved pediments above its two entrances record. The sixth, a large 700-seat theatre, sits in the “Portalis” building and occasionally hosts conferences with or without simultaneous interpreting, corporate events and small-scale performances.
The commission covered the specification of the stage and audiovisual infrastructure for these six lecture theatres of the Law Faculty, as part of their renovation. The Portalis theatre accordingly received a stage installation suited to it, while remaining within the constraints of its university purpose, which continues to take precedence.
