Article source: MOATTI-RIVIERE

The project foresees:

– renovating the Bank of France building and using its potential in the best possible manner

– to tie in with the new project lacing temporary and permanent exhibition spaces and their technical facilities in a new building that is functional and symbolic of the «SIGNE»(Centre national du Graphisme)

– offering the «SIGNE» and the city an entrance courtyard for their encounters as a place for meetings and as an exhibition space.

Image Courtesy © Michel Denancé

• Architects: MOATTI-RIVIERE
• Project: Le Signe National Centre for Graphic Design
• Location: Chaumont (52), France
• Photography: Michel Denancé
  
• Lead Architects: Alain Moatti
• Engineering: Polymago (Graphics and signage), RFR (structure), Inex (fluids), Les sentinelles des collections (Preventive conservation), Bureau Michel Forgue (costs surveyor), Vincent Taurisson (Multimedia and audiovisual), Lumières Studio (lighting), Avel (acoustics)
• Type of stone: Limestone Moka cream
• Dimensions: 120 x 240 cm
• Exterior: steel joinery
• Interior: structural walls and raw concrete floor
• Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 2 460 m²
• Completion Year: 2016

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