Music conservatoire — Saint-Nazaire
Extension and restructuring — the 280-seat Jean-Jacques Lumeau auditorium.
The brief reflects the city's wish to offer a better-performing facility, better suited to how it is used, by bringing together the existing dance school and music conservatoire. The building's renovation includes acoustic and thermal improvement as well as simplified use; altering the existing joinery allowed better thermal insulation and harmonised the existing and new façades.
On the upper floors, the first is given over to the large dance studios; the second, third and fourth house the music classrooms — percussion on the second, small and large ensemble practice and computer-assisted music on the third, biniou and bombarde on the fourth.
The centrepiece of the project, the new auditorium — with its dressing rooms, technical spaces and 280 seats on two levels — finds its place in the natural slope at the heart of the plot, which reduces its visual and acoustic impact. Reached from the entrance foyer, it is clad in a theatrical red paired with zebrano wood panels and bears the name of Jean-Jacques Lumeau, former deputy mayor for culture of the city of Saint-Nazaire, who died in December 2021.
