Music and dance conservatoire — Rungis
Conversion of a brownfield building to house the new music and dance school.
Set within a brownfield site in the town centre, the new facility brings together spaces for music, dance, reception functions, administration and the Ensemble Harmonique de Rungis, along with outdoor areas. The unusual shape of the site led to a layout that stages the building with obvious ease and serenity; a dialogue between solids and voids requalifies the spaces and helps bring the site back into value.
The project aims to deliver a new 3,300 m² complex comprising a 200-seat auditorium, documentation areas, a social space, instrument teaching studios on two levels, individual practice studios, classrooms, rooms for amplified music and jazz, and classical and contemporary dance studios.
Scenarchie's assignment covered the complete stage equipment of the auditorium, designed first and foremost for unamplified voice and music. The particular feature of the scenography was to suspend five motorized battens in full view of the audience, beneath the pitched roof of a former workshop.
