We aim here at developing in details a small size theatre project (70 to 120 seats) in an demanding urban context, Sèvres Gate / Balard metro station, Paris. It seems pertinent to me to locate the project on the embankment of the former Small Belt (Petite Ceinture) train line bridge which overpasses at this point the Sèvres Gate avenue.
   This project is now made possible as one of the many possibilities offered to the City council, whose aim is to turn the Small Belt Line southern area into a linear urban park connecting both André Citroën (westwards) and Georges Brassens (eastwards) parks.
   I endeavoured to draw a theatre literally on the embankment, as if suspended at the bridge abutment existing masonry just like a bartizan in military architecture. The goal was to distribute the theatre spaces and its associated programmes (a bookshop and a small exhibition space) over the two ground floors: a lower level connected to the street, and an upper one, nine meters above, opening on the future park. The architectural response organises several different routes constituted of varied spatial sequences connecting these two levels of public space.

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Automn Term 2011

ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, FR

Teachers: Xavier Fabre, Yann Rocher, Xavier Dousson​