Conservatoire — Orsay

The construction of this conservatoire brings together a range of spaces devoted to musical practice, dance and drama: a 300-seat auditorium, a drama room and a multipurpose audition room, four dance rooms, a staging room and music teaching rooms. A place of encounter and crossover between genres, the conservatoire's importance in local life is expressed through an architecture that is at once emblematic, receptive and open to dialogue with its surroundings.

The main space of the conservatoire for musicians and audience alike, the 300-seat auditorium raises the question to be solved in every large conservatoire hall: showing musicians at their best while they are still learning, and at the same time allowing public performance by renowned orchestras or musicians.

The scenographic design answers that twofold requirement, together with that of drama and dance, which call for a light stage infrastructure to be integrated into the resonating body of the stage, compatible with the acoustic priorities of the hall.