This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries, 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. The various activities blend into each other, creating a dynamic arrangement.
The facade acts as an unfurling ribbon that serves as a backdrop to the different universes contained in the programme. The hollow and solid sections produce an ambiguity between inside and outside, questioning the borders of the public space. A garden ramp offers another escape route to the outside, leading up to a summer bar, the culminating point of the architectural promenade.
The building rests on a principle of stacking simple systems, each with their own logic - creating tension in the space and in how it is read. The bubbles - cocoons where people are cut off from the other universes - contain very specific elements of the programme, such as a storytelling area, places for playing video games, a plastic arts room, etc.
The multiple routes offer a variety of viewpoints throughout. The promenade turns into a process of revealing the various universes. This sophistication generates a 'plastic acoustic', an atmosphere which re-examines the relationship with the body and fluidity. There is no unequivocal reading of the space; the perception one has of it reveals a complexity and an unexpected richness. It is a place of freedom.