What makes the architecture innovative?
The architecture meets the centre’s requirements for welcoming the public and exhibiting works of art, whatever their dimensions and type. It includes exhibition areas in three adjustable galleries in the main nave, as well as within the creative studio. Other areas can also be used for exhibits: the garden, the forum, the restaurant terrace, and the top of the galleries. The roof, inspired by a woven Chinese hat, will be an astounding structural achievement: a hexagon echoing the shape of the floor map, made up of a series of modular elements, also hexagons measuring 2.9 metres on each side, put together like the Chinese hat. The structure will be made from highly resistant glue-laminated wood, providing a mesh that can span lengths of about 40 metres. The building’s relationship with the environment is another important feature: “We imagined an architecture that speaks of openness, a meeting of cultures and well-being, in an immediate and sensory relationship with the environment,” e
