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Projects / Culture

A Contemporary Music Centre

Lillebonne

Redevelopment of the current music and dance centre in the former industrial buildings of SNTF

Project owner
Communauté de Communes Caux Vallée de Seine
Project manager
Deshoulières Jeanneau Architectes
Project management team
Traces (landscape architects), Daniel Commins (acoustic engineering), Thierry Guignard (stage designer)
Image credits
Patrick Miara
Location
Lillebonne (76), France
Programme
Redevelopment of the current music and dance centre in the former industrial buildings of SNTF
Surface area
2.160 m2
Cost of the works
5,2 M€ pre-tax
Status
Delivered (2015)
Schedule
2006 - 2015
Label
HQE

Formerly owned by the Norman Flexible Hose Company, or SNTF, the buildings that now house the current music and dance centre bear witness to the valley’s nineteenth-century industrial past. After the site’s closing in the 1980s, the Caux Vallée de Seine federation of municipalities decided to preserve this abandoned site as part of the area’s industrial heritage. The smokestack, which belongs to the city of Lillebonne, was also preserved. The architectural design uses these historical traces to define a cultural facility for inhabitants and to help develop a new image for this area. Whereas the factory was a closed space reserved to workers, the conservatory is open to the city, with a pedestrian walkway leading to the renovated buildings and newly built structures. The abstract, contemporary style of the new buildings alludes to industrial architecture, and the entire project was conceived as a dialogue between these various layers of local history that reveals the site’s gentle incline.

Plan

An east-west pedestrian walkway crosses the site, connecting the industrial vestiges (the smokestack and the main building) to the three new, oblong buildings. 

The rehabilitated structures house a reception area, a teacher’s room, and two creative workshop spaces.

The site sits on a gentle slope, which is revealed by the pedestrian walkway and the varying steepness of the new buildings.

The style and materials of these new structures represent a clear break from the historical context.

Interior

The new buildings house two dance studios, three training rooms, two collective studios for contemporary music, a percussion room, a computer-assisted music room, and a dozen rooms for individual music lessons.

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