BnF François-Mitterrand national library — Paris
Overhaul of the main auditorium control room, technical grid for the exhibition halls and modernisation of the site sound system.
Since 2021, Scenarchie has been working with the Bibliothèque nationale de France at its François-Mitterrand site. As lead designer, the practice first carried out the overhaul of the main auditorium’s control room: new audio and video networks, new mixer and video switcher, lighting desk and screens, bespoke furniture and an acoustic enclosure around the projectors to keep noise in the control room below 40 dB.
It then designed, within the SCPA Fournier-Bathellier team, the installation of a technical grid in the exhibition halls.
Scenarchie is now bringing its expertise to the modernisation of the site-wide sound system, which counts some 1,500 loudspeakers across the public spaces, the towers, the car parks and the offices: an audit and measurement of every line, then the design of a new EN 54-compliant system, switched over in stages while the site stays open.
