LA FABRIQUE Artistic Laboratories and Cultural Center in Nantes by TETRARC
15/01/2013.
[Nantes] France
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
This a interesting project about remodelation, where the most important is the memory of the imbroglio workshops, halls, office blocks and the presence of high structure aisles shipyards, the impact of a bunker designed to protect workers from aerial bombardment, the straightness of an old channel filled: La Fabrique does not simply possession of land but invests a triangular site carries traces of a highly visible technical and human history.
View from the terrace. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Recording spaces above the old air-raid shelter. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Room meeting. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Plaza for events and gathering. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Covered public hall. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Auditorium, inner vision. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Hall illuminated at night. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Hall La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Auditorium. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Night view, outside vision with illuminated. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Night view. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
On bunker. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Old bunker. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Site plan. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. First level. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Second level. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Third level. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Fourth level. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Cross section. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Section. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Section bunker. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Elevation plan. Levels new bunker. La Fabrique by Tetrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau.
Program.- Design equipment dedicated to contemporary and emerging music, assembling together 2 performing show halls (1200, 400 places), 16 recording and training studios, spaces for digital experimentation, offices, and welcoming public spaces.
Project.- On the “île de Nantes”, La Fabrique takes place on one side of the previous Dubigeon warehouse, near the Alstom warehouse (the upcoming centre of the “Quartier de la Création”) and the old shipyard turned into great gardens. This context gave Tétrarc the opportunity to gather the recalls of a place abandoned by History and remind us that Culture is a continuum made of sedimentation & fertile rediscovery.
History of places made of industrial warehouses. History of the techniques that built them, when science and aesthetics meet up to create a new beauty. History of the ships built with the strength skills and talents of the workers.
History of artists whose eyes felt on this universe, from Monet, the painter of the brand new steel structures, to the Becher who used to forget metallic shapes. Again, the History of the industrial production organization enables us to place under the same roof an experimental workshop, an assembly line, a rectification workshop, and an export site; all those as a living picture of the concept of flexibility.
The project is made of 3 distinct elements. First, the 400 Hall (with offices upon it) then the 1200 Hall: two parts connected by a public Hall inserted in the concrete post frame of the Halle Dubigeon. Finally, the studios take place in a volume suspended above an old air-raid shelter.
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Architects
Project team
Project Manager: Michel Bertreux. Project Director: Rémi Tymen. Project Study: Guillaume Blanchard. Client.- City of Nantes, SAMOA. Structural Engineer.- BET Structure. SERBA. BET Fluides. AREA. Scenography.- ARCHITECTURE & TECHNIQUE. Acoustics.- BAUDE. Multimedia.- VTCI. Running.- OMEGA.
Main Contractor
Shell building, ETPO.
Area
Building surface.- 7.222 m².
Dates
Competition, 2005. Study.- 2005/08.
Completion.- September 2011.
Completion.- September 2011.
Program
Concert hall 1200 seats, concert hall 400 seats, 16 recording and training studios, spac¬es for digital experimentation, offices, welcoming public spaces (cafe, restaurant, bar).
Manufacturers
Metal framework.- ACML. Metal façade (front).- EMFA. Cladding.- GUILLONET. Aluminium Millwork.- RENOUARD. Millwork.- GUITTENY. Plasterer.- PIM. Locksmith trade.- CMR. Stage.- AMG-FECHOZ. Stage network.- AUDIOTECHNIQUE. Design.- MÉTALOBIL. Lift.- CFA. Heating, ventilation.- HERVÉ THERMIQUE. Electricity.- INÉO.
Photography
Stéphane Chalmeau.
Nantes TETRARC
TETRARC, founded in 1988 in Nantes, discusses the architecture of very large: town planning, public spaces, new construction, industrial design, scenography and museum. Its four members (Michel Bertreux, Alain Boeffard, Claude Jolly and Jean Pierre Macé) are followers of the idea of total art and consider architecture as a poetic meaning. Appropriating the city in a fun way, the group develops buildings systematically seek to transform events into multifaceted complexity of programs and places. Its aim is to stimulate a new perspective on the city and strengthen its appropriation by expressive interventions, printing as second nature to the urban morphology.
TETRARC uses a vocabulary organic to break the orthogonality of the City and affix the personal brand of the group.
Act.>. 01/2013
