Multicultural venue — Grigny
Construction of a multifunctional cultural venue.
The city of Grigny wanted this cultural facility in order to gather all of its cultural players in a single place and to send a strong signal for cultural development. Set within an urban development scheme, the 4,668 m² building has a strong architecture organised around a large Forum. Conceived as a space that can itself be staged, the Forum connects the various entities of the brief, but can also stand as an entity in its own right, hosting exhibitions, small concerts or reading areas.
The facility brings together a multipurpose hall oriented towards performance and film, a music and dance conservatoire, an auditorium used as a speaking venue, a media library, a Micro-Folie and a fablab. The scheme is carried out for the Grand Paris Sud conurbation authority, with Atelier Novembre, in joint contracting (French MOP law).
Scenarchie's involvement, in the tendering phase, covered the design of all the sociotechnical systems — metalwork, machinery, drapery, sound, lighting — and of the scenography, both in thinking through the possible uses of the Forum and in choosing the techniques for each space.
