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22FEB 2013

Théâtre 95 in Cergy-Pontoise / GPAA

Posted in Architecture - Cultural by * FORMAKERS

French agency Gaëlle Péneau Architecte et Associés - GPAA recently completed the reshaping and extension of the Théâtre 95 in Cergy-Pontoise, France.

The Théâtre 95, opposite the prefecture, is housed in the third building to be built in the new town which arose in the 1970s.

This emblem of the town’s history was once the home of Cergy Pontoise school of architecture and urban planning before becoming an arts school and then being transformed into a theatre.

The extension is a complex project which is framed by more general considerations about emerging social and urban developments and cultural practices.

The new volume rises in an almost baroque posture, as if in confrontation with what is already there: the existing building conserves its identity, the atrium linking it to the new, setting up a “face-off” relationship between two visions which mix, stand in opposition and join together in a boldly chaotic statement.

The new extension houses a “flexible” 400 seat auditorium: the volume, which includes stage and technical areas, is blind and covered with golden scales which bring light to a fairly colourless urban environment.

City:
Cergy-Pontoise, France.

Design team:
Gaëlle Péneau Architecte et Associés - GPAA

Status:
Completed

Website:
http://www.gpaa.fr/

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