client

Musée national de la marine / OPPIC

 

architect

Hugues Fontenas

assistant architects

Nolwenn Caillard, Laure Lienard

 

engineering

RFR GO / C&E Ingénierie (structure), Espace temps (mechanics), RFR Éléments (environment).

cost surveyor

MDETC

graphic design

Atelier à Kiko

site coordinator

Hytecc

 

floor area

9 706  m2

 

cost

6 191 000 € HT

 

calendar

 2012-2015 (completed)

 

program

Conservation centre for the storage and study of objects in the collections of the National Navy Museum. The centre is to be built inside a former airport hangar on the site of Le Bourget airport near Paris. Logistics office for preparation and transit of objects, warehouses, workshops, photography studio, model building and restoration studio, study room, documentation centre, administrative offices.

 

architectural design

Two new volumes constructed under the roof of the existing hangar on either sides of an internal street bathed in natural light. These structures present two types of architecture: a closed metal volume for the storage spaces ; a translucent or transparent volume for study and working rooms. The void  between the existing hangar structure and the new volumes offers an intermediate climate which reduces  installations needed for mechanical climate control.
The new structure and added floors are conceived for both inertness and lightness in order to control the storage climate and avoid any additional foundations.

 

photographs

Musée national de la Marine / A. Fux



111, bd Beaumarchais — 75003 Paris
T: +33 1 45 79 01 49 — 
en fr 

Conservation centre for the national navy museum in Dugny

2015



Exceeding expectations
Develop each project following a re-evaluation of both programme and anticipated results. Reply beyond the expectations of the programme. The principal architectural objective is to be found in the research of added, unexpected qualities.

 

Evolving surfaces
Architecture to be also conceived as terrains to be occupied in the future by still uncertain or improbable uses. Architecture as “reverse ruins” in an upturned archaeology that facilitates or suggests inevitable transformations. Therefore, when it might be tempting to be just spectacular, never hesitate to be simple and complex.

 

Comforts
Pay particular attention to all the complexity factors – functional, technical, regulatory, economic, aesthetic – and use them as a basis for future comforts. Distinguish structures, enclosures or equipment to consider temporal aspects of the project in a prospect of reversibility and diversity of uses.

 

Artificiality
Advocate and assert the profound artificiality, the non-naturalness of architecture. Conceive architecture in a grey ecology without naivety and in creative phase with the contradictions of our environment.

 

Aspirations
Associate production and research in resonance with an analysis of actual facts. Remain independent in thought to stimulate, guide and increase the pertinence of a project. Propose reality as an aspiration to do differently.

 

Founded in 2006, the office has developed its activity mainly in the field of cultural facilities with a strong interest and expertise in programmes related to the exhibition and preservation of all types of collections, from archaeology to contemporary art. Hugues Fontenas also teaches and conducts research on themes strongly connected to work in the office.

 

111, bd Beaumarchais — 75003 Paris
T: +33 1 45 79 01 49 — 
en fr