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Le Temps Machine

Le Temps Machine
© Hervé Abbadie

LE TEMPS MACHINE

Moussafir Architectes Associés

LOCATION
Joué-lès-tours, France

CONTRACTORS
Dv Construction, Amg Féchoz, Bideau, Vti, Edmond Petit

AREA
1753 m²

CATEGORY
Theaters & Performance

YEAR
2011

PARTNER ENGINEERS
A&T(stage designers), Ayda(acoustic designers), Batiserf(structural engineers), LBe (mechanical engineers), Bureau Michel Forgue(quantity surveyor)

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hervé Abbadie, Jérôme Ricolleau, Benoît Faure, Luc Boegly

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Batiserf

CONTRACTORS
DV construction(general contractor), AMG Féchoz(stage machinery), Bideau(stage electrics), VTI(wooden stage flooring), Edmond Petit(stage fabrics)

Le Temps Machine
© Luc Boegly
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau

IDEAS & OBJECTIVES

The former Joué-lès-tours youth center was a blocky, opaque, inward-looking building that failed to interact with the surrounding public space and no longer met current standards and requirements.

Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau

The architectural design for the new music facility responds to a three-fold objective:

-To open the building up to its surroundings

-To improve the way the opaque block integrates with existing buildings

Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Luc Boegly

-To emphasize the festive dimension of the facility by making a unique architectural statement.

to improve its contextual integration, we have divided the structure into two parts functioning in different registers: a determinedly horizontal 2m50 tall concrete and glass base housing a fluid, open interior space, and a roof with the three main components of the design brief (the two performance areas and the resource center) bursting through it like opaque excrescences.

This duality is emphasized by the use of contrasting materials: hard on the inside (raw concrete, glass, stainless steel) and soft on the outside (a membrane stretched over exterior insulation materials).

Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Benoît Faure

With its complex volumetrics and textured outer surface, the new building stands out like a beacon in the urban landscape.

the contradictory image we were aiming at is one of a unique yet familiar object that is challenging

Le Temps Machine
© Hervé Abbadie
Le Temps Machine
© Hervé Abbadie

And yet invites appropriation: a sculptural design that refers to nothing that already exists, but which users can easily engage with, both in functional and symbolic terms.


Le Temps Machine
© Hervé Abbadie
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Jérôme Ricolleau
Le Temps Machine
© Hervé Abbadie


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