Architect：Thomas Architectes

Location：Bar-le-Duc, France; | ;View Map

Project Year：2022

Category：Concert Halls;Cultural Centres;Exhibitions

Building an auditorium in wood is a real acoustic challenge. This challenge has been won in France, in “Bar-le-Duc”, in a peri-urban aera. Made of wood (CLT), this humble hall, able to accommodate 2 500 people, has a surprising and unique volume. It consists of two nested volumes which get to the point. Their organic form is an invitation to the movement and to the architectural flow. This flow is starting by a lobby widely open, which like a mythical skeleton trains you in the heart of the building. This is the first time of a collective experience connected at this moment of waiting for the show to come.

The scenography has been particularly studied to allow the most elaborate shows, like the simplest. The auditorium must allow manifold configurations, intended for the organization of various events.

My will to build in wood has always been avowed like an architectural obviousness, qualitative, sensitive and responsible. Very early, during my first architecturals abroad visits, whether it be in Finland, in Sweden, in Norway, in Denmark, in United States, in Germany, in Switzerland, in Japan… The wood was always here, like a very strong architectural and conceptual link, used like a constructive certainty assumed. A plenty creativity where mastery of the site, of materials write back to the uses while contributing to an accepted art of living.

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