« La Ferme du Grand Val » cultural centre — Sucy-en-Brie
A cultural centre set up in a seventeenth-century farmhouse.
Set in a 17th-century farm, the Grand Val cultural centre houses some twenty rooms for cultural activities and a small 145-seat cinema-theatre, of which only the walls and timber frame were kept during the restructuring and rehabilitation of the site. An exhibition room occupies one wing of the building.
The facility no longer met standards and no longer had enough seats: the ambition of the works was to receive audiences in exceptional conditions. The fragmentation of the interior spaces and the multiplicity of floor levels are offset by the singularity of the original characteristics, notably the 70 × 60 m quadrangle that invites a rationalising of the plans.
Besides the traditional stage equipment, a tensioned-cable grid allows lighting to be set in situ across the whole area of the hall and the stage.
