Article source: GPAA

The challenges of the project

The contractor’s definition of the project is articulated around a close link between reshaping the Théâtre 95, outlining an urban morphology, and finding free spaces in the urban island.The theatre’s extension is framed by a dialectic vision of interactions between town and theatre: the theatre stretches beyond its limits while the town must find in it a porous space, a space of journeys, echoes, dreams, encounters and everyday life, devoted to contemporary modes of expression and deliberately placed at the very heart of the town.

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• Architects: GPAA
• Project: Theatre 95
• Location: Cergy-Pontoise, France
• Area: 3000 m2 auditorium / site: 10 000 m2
• Schedule: Competition 2007 – Works March 2010 – May 2012
• Cost of works: 9,800,000€ Before tax / 1M € on theatre equipment

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