« Le 6MIC » contemporary music venue — Aix-en-Provence
A contemporary music venue — two halls and digital creation spaces.
Design-build of a SMAC (contemporary music venue) bringing together two contemporary music halls and various spaces devoted to digital communication. The Pays d'Aix authority approved the launch of a project long awaited by the young people of the Aix conurbation, part of a wish to create a timeless abstract landscape in harmony with the richness of the Provençal scenery.
Set in a brownfield site on the edge of Aix, the building is clad in a "skin" of worked concrete forming, in time, a landscaped hill with isothermal and acoustic performance. "Its envelope frees it from the functional orthogonality of the brief; it evokes a liberated musical expression, in perpetual experiment." Intended for contemporary music — rock, pop, groove — it stands out as a singular rock in the Aix landscape.
