French studio PCA-Stream has accomplished La Supply Vive, a domed copper-clad live performance corridor in Évian, France, designed “as a musical instrument”.
Nestled right into a sloping woodland website overlooking Lake Geneva, La Supply Vive is a 490-seat chamber music corridor located subsequent to Patrick Bouchain’s present 1993 live performance corridor La Grange au Lac.
Designed to enhance the prevailing venue, La Supply Vive gives a devoted house for chamber music rehearsals, performances and recordings, whereas the restored 1,000-seat timber corridor La Grange au Lac continues to host large-scale orchestral performances.
Collectively, the 2 halls type a part of Les Mélèzes, a cultural advanced encompassing music and performing arts, based by French philanthropist Aline Foriel-Destezet.
Attaining high-quality acoustics was the central concept guiding the design of La Supply Vive, influencing selections in regards to the constructing’s geometry and materials palette.
Philippe Chiambaretti and Patrick Bouchain labored alongside acoustician Albert Xu to “design the constructing as a musical instrument”, exploring how its type, supplies and finishes may affect sound high quality.
The design course of concerned acoustic sketches, digital modelling, simulations and repeated on-site testing throughout building.
PCA-Stream additionally developed a digital twin of the challenge to observe and refine the corridor’s acoustic behaviour at totally different levels.
La Supply Vive is about throughout three volumes – a glazed lobby, the domed live performance corridor and a separate backstage constructing containing dressing rooms.
By positioning the challenge inside an present clearing, the architects aimed to minimise the impression on the woodland website, whereas enhancing biodiversity via planting greater than 150 timber and 200 shrubs alongside panorama studio Coloco.
Linking the previous and new halls, the glazed lobby was rebuilt and expanded to incorporate a bar, ticketing space and timber terrace. Rainwater collected beneath the terrace is reused to irrigate the encircling panorama.
From the lobby, guests move via a rock-cut passage earlier than coming into a foyer that opens onto the auditorium.
Housed inside a domed “partially-buried shell”, the live performance corridor is clad with pre-patinated copper tiles which catch and mirror gentle, and are designed to climate over time to mix into the encircling woodland.
Structurally, the live performance corridor is shaped of an acoustic concrete shell wrapped with a second timber body beneath the copper roof.
Inside, the 490-seat auditorium combines components of the oblong “shoebox” live performance corridor with the extra modern “winery” mannequin, inserting audiences on terraced seating across the performers.
The studio opted for a pared-back materials palette of concrete, uncooked plaster, timber and leather-based all through.
Curved plaster partitions are sculpted with undulating grooves that challenge as much as eight centimetres at viewers stage, serving to to diffuse and mirror sound. Above the stage, a bespoke aluminium cover was designed to additional optimise acoustics.
Stable rose beech timber beams have been used for the stage backdrop and flooring, whereas custom-made dusty orange leather-based benches are organized asymmetrically across the stage to create a better relationship between viewers and performers.
An oculus within the ceiling attracts pure gentle inside, fitted with a blackout display screen that permits the house to be darkened when required.
Alongside chamber-music performances, La Supply Vive accommodates theatre, dance and literary readings, in addition to a recording studio house. There are additionally areas for workshops, exhibitions and lectures.
A separate quantity upslope from the live performance corridor comprises dressing rooms and backstage services. Clad in larch and clapboard, its base is constructed from recycled stone. Elsewhere, stone from the close by Meillerie quarry was additionally used for landscaped rockwork.
Different live performance halls just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a College of Oxford performing arts centre set round a four-storey atrium by Hopkins Architects and a trio of rectangular red-brick music buildings for MIT by SANAA.
The pictures is by Salem Mostefaoui.
La Supply Vive founder: Aline Foriel-Destezet
Creative director: Patrick Bouchain
Acoustic advisor: Albert Xu
Acoustic engineering: Meta
Lead architect: Philippe Chiambaretta, PCA-Stream
Architects: Sébastien Truchot, Francesco Cazzola, PCA-Stream
Construction and facade engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann
Lighting: Atelier de l’éclairage
Panorama architect: Coloco
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