Centre Pompidou — Metz
Scenographic design of a creation studio and a cinema auditorium.
Beneath Shigeru Ban's glued-laminated timber frame, two volumes are devoted to creation and to the image: a creation studio and a cinema auditorium.
A rectangular box set within a cylindrical volume, the creation studio is a versatile space fitted with a technical ceiling carrying 25 motorized battens (350 kg WLL) and 12 fixed battens. A retractable seating stand offers 200 seats. Around the edge of the hall, a technical gallery gathers the batten controls and the sound, lighting and video connections, for commissioning resident equipment or equipment brought in for the site's cultural programming.
In order to make use of the film catalogue of the Centre Pompidou's museum collection, the cinema is fitted with a 35 mm film projector, complemented by a digital projector and Dolby sound — a mixed installation approved by the CST. With a capacity of 144 seats, it also hosts talks, lectures, film presentations and festivals, thanks to full sound and lighting equipment and a stage superstructure above the platform. Scenarchie carried out the scenographic design and the specification of the stage equipment.
