Scenography in a cultural place - Agnès&Agnès architecture - France
Agnès Chryssostalis/ Agnès Guillemin

Biography



Project Description

Investing in the old treasurer's house to transform it into a cultural place is a challenge in every respect. This historic site must at the same time preserve its strong architectural presence but also become an attractive place for the Rémois and the tourists. Our main objective in the context of the scenography and positioning in the City was to create a strong identity that is deployed in the building by furniture (mobile or not), strong exterior signage and a graphic visual identity that takes up the principle of setting up the scenography. In the building we wanted, to meet a demand for modularity in time, to create furniture as much as possible movable, adjustable, interchangeable and modular: cubic elements of different heights and able to serve different functions. This makes it possible both to meet a necessity of presenting in the "place info culture" and of exhibition in the part "museum". Moreover, to meet a need for display, vertical panels are installed under and around the loopholes present in the place in order to highlight their particularities and architectural quality. This image of dissemination resumes the idea that the cultural gems of Reims are scattered to the four corners of the city and that this space therefore becomes its representative essence. The choice of colors - black and gold - resumes both the sobriety of the rehabilitation of the place by the services of the City (exterior joinery, fences ...) through black, but also gold in order to subtly arise Tthe image of the treasure that can represent all the buildings and specific and magnificent places of the City.