International School arts centre — Geneva
A space for study and encounter — a studio theatre, an auditorium and a multimedia hub.
Built on the "Grande Boissière" campus of the International School of Geneva, the Centre des Arts offers a space for study and encounter extending the traditional school disciplines. It also brings the school into the cultural and artistic life of the city and canton of Geneva.
The complex gathers a 180-seat studio theatre fitted with a braided steel cable grid of the "Safety Rig" type, a 400-seat auditorium devoted primarily to acoustic music and singing, teaching studios for theatre and dance, a multimedia centre including videoconferencing, and visual arts workshops. Working timber into a succession of acoustic reflectors, the auditorium has 51 seats spread across a balcony and stepped side galleries, and favours unamplified events: theatre, choirs, chamber music, symphonic concerts for small and medium ensembles, and choreography.
The stage equipment — a stage with motorized battens, a large kabuki drop screen and a lighting bridge in the hall plenum — is deliberately simple and robust, so that teachers and students alike can use it in complete safety.
