Condette, France

Completed 2016

 

 

Winner, World Architecture News Wood in Architecture Award 2018

Nominated, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture -Mies van der Rohe Prize

Special Commendation, GAGA Awards, the Galvanisers’ Association

 

 

The building's design process involved making physical prototypes in our studio of elements such as facade cladding, balcony fronts and bamboo screening; further scale models were made by Aérodynamique Eiffel in order to test and define the building's unprecedented natural ventilation system. The project was presented during design to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and theatre director Peter Brook (a longtime guide of practice director Andrew Todd). The construction process took 2 years, beginning with a sheet-pile foundation system, concrete basement and then the spectacular erection -in only 7 weeks- of the building's all-wood superstructure. We visited the Merk factory near Augsburg to observe the unprecedented fabrication process of the building's all-curved CLT structure.

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See also for this project: Exteriors  /  Auditorium   /  Construction  /  Details  /  Servant  /  Site

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Client: Conseil Départemental du Pas de Calais

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Size: 1233 m2

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Budget: 4.3 million euros

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Team:

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Studio Andrew Todd architects, auditorium and landscape design

Niclas Dünnebacke

Philip Mellor-Ribet

Bridget O'Rourke

Nadia Raïs

Solveig Rottier

Andrew Todd

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L+A Landscape Architects

LM Structural and Environmental Engineering

Charcoalblue Acoustics and Theatre Consultants

Bureau Michel Forgue, Cost Consultant

Cabinet Casso, Fire Engineering

 

 

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