Cantal departmental headquarters — Aurillac
Audiovisual equipment and hybrid conference system for the deliberation chamber.
The Cantal departmental council undertook the redevelopment of its Pierre Raynal council chamber, at the Hôtel du Département in Aurillac, with the practice Archimade 19. Scenarchie acted as project manager and designer for the whole of the audiovisual and conference system.
The driving force behind the operation is post-Covid: allowing elected members to take part remotely or in person with the same functions, the same right to speak and the same vote. The chamber takes 31 conference units — five built into the presidential bench, twenty-six free-standing for the councillors —, electronic voting by RFID badge with proxy management, and a secure gateway that brings remote members into the session as though they were in the room.
A 165-inch LED screen occupies the back wall behind the bench, and six retractable motorised screens sit flush with the councillors’ furniture. Five cameras handle the capture: four 4K turrets that automatically frame the speaker and one fixed camera used as a cutaway, so that no movement shows on screen. Everything travels over an IP network and feeds the recording, the streaming on the Department’s website and video on demand.
