Article source: Dominique Coulon & associés

This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a ‘third place’ – a place where members of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as well as reception. In association with the basic programme, the building includes areas for displays, creation, music studios, and a café-restaurant. To give meaning to this new programme, it seemed necessary to question the way in which a place of this kind is produced. The various activities in the programme blend into each other, creating a dynamic arrangement. The spatial principle is based on a non-hierarchical superposition of different systems.

Image Courtesy © Eugeni Pons

• Architects: Dominique Coulon & associés (Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos)
• Project: Media Library [Third-Place]
• Location: 1 place Malraux, 57100 Thionville, France
• Photography: Eugeni Pons and David Romero-Uzeda
• 3D Animation: Brooklyn Foundry
• Architects assistants: Gautier Duthoit
• Construction site supervision: Steve Letho Duclos
• Engineers and consultants:
  • Structural Engineer: Batiserf Ingénierie
  • Electrical Engineer: BET G.Jost
  • Mechanical Plumbing Engineer: Solares Bauen
  • Cost Estimator: E3 économie
  • Acoustics: Euro sound project
  • Landscape: Bruno Kubler
• Budget: 11 000 000€

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