The Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts

Le Fresnoy - National Studio was a popular entertainment complex with 1000 seats cinema, a swimming pool transformed into a riding school, a roller-skating hall, a dance hall, a brasserie, a games room and a capacity of up to 6000 people. 1905-1984. The rehabilitation project was entrusted to the architect Bernard Tschumi . The project can be summarized by "hangar" of the old buildings with tiled roofs. They are thus integrated and sheltered by a closed parallelepiped on the north side, open for the other three sides, surmounted by a roof of 100 x 80 m with large openings and formed of large canopies covered with plates of transparent polycarbonate in the form of "cloud ". Bernard Tschumi sees project as "a series of boxes in a box. The site has a school, a film set, a multimedia library, cinema and exhibition halls, two cinemas, research and production laboratories (sound, electronic image, film and video) on eight thousand square meters. Premises for administration and catering as well as about ten homes. This complex is able to accommodate a public composed of more than a thousand people who can both visit the exhibition sites and attend the projections. Commercial spaces, including the bookstorming bookshop specialized in contemporary art, are integrated into the project, an underground car park is created as well as a landscaped terrace giving access to a garden by a large external staircase