NO.144
Champollion Museum- The Scriptures of the World
Musée Champollion - Les écritures du monde / Agence Moatti et Rivière
Description
Restoration and reconversion of a 14th century building.
Creation of permanent and temporary exhibition rooms.
Location: Figeac, France
Competition: winning project, October 2001
Year completed: 2007 (Year began 2005)
Studios: Agence Moatti et Rivière
Authors: Alain Moatti (1957 France); Henri Rivière (1965 France)
Collaborators
Project architect: Val de Vincelles Graphic design: Pierre di Sciullo Collaborator (external): Pascal Payeur, Fr Rat Engineering: Betom Toulouse Lighting: Fran Gaunand Façades: Concepta Furniture: Goppion Construction company: MGE Interiors: Goubie Others: Etandex Construction: Sotraco
Map: LatLng: (44.609741, 2.034501)
Area: 1,300 m2 HON.
Cost: 4.1 million euros excluding tax.
Project management: City of Figeac (Lot)
Typographic Moucharaby
The museum is housed in three buildings in the heritage area of the old town and articulates three themes: signify the activities of writing and deciphering texts in urban space, take part in public space, extend the history of these places.
The screen façade on place Champollion enables identification of the museum: it is a meta-phor of writing and deciphering. The old stone façade ensures continuity with the urban fabric and houses of Figeac. The screen façade is set back from the alignment and designed as a composition in glass and copper animated by alphabets. This is the polyglot typographic moucharabieh.
Between these two façades are loggias open to the public, and high up, the soleilo, a feature borrowed from the vernacular architecture of the Figeac region. The depth of the façade forms a public transition space between square and museum.
The façade reflects a blend of artisan and industrial processes.
It expresses poetic modernity inspired by living vibrating light - light that breathes and measures time. Luminous and mysterious by day, at night it is part of the lights of the town.
The façade is composed of a sheet of copper laid over a polymer film. Layered glass carries the copper sheet and film between two separating sheets of PVB.
Graphic artist designed the overall composition of this façade; he etched each letter so that it appears in positive on the copper sheet.
The world famous egyptologist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) was born in Figeac; he is the tutelary figure of this museum.
From the origins of writing to the new territories of telematic networks, the museographic itin-erary proposes several modes of entrance: graphics (the design and creation of signs, their evolution, the role of the support, handwriting, composition) ; systems and grammars (the con-struction of words and sentences, the relationship to language, phonetics); and usages (func-tions and power of writing, civilizations and society).
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Champollion Museum- The Scriptures of the World
Musée Champollion - Les écritures du monde / Agence Moatti et Rivière
Description
Restoration and reconversion of a 14th century building.
Creation of permanent and temporary exhibition rooms.
Location: Figeac, France
Competition: winning project, October 2001
Year completed: 2007 (Year began 2005)
Studios: Agence Moatti et Rivière
Authors: Alain Moatti (1957 France); Henri Rivière (1965 France)
Collaborators
Project architect: Val de Vincelles Graphic design: Pierre di Sciullo Collaborator (external): Pascal Payeur, Fr Rat Engineering: Betom Toulouse Lighting: Fran Gaunand Façades: Concepta Furniture: Goppion Construction company: MGE Interiors: Goubie Others: Etandex Construction: Sotraco
Map: LatLng: (44.609741, 2.034501)
Area: 1,300 m2 HON.
Cost: 4.1 million euros excluding tax.
Project management: City of Figeac (Lot)
Typographic Moucharaby
The museum is housed in three buildings in the heritage area of the old town and articulates three themes: signify the activities of writing and deciphering texts in urban space, take part in public space, extend the history of these places.
The screen façade on place Champollion enables identification of the museum: it is a meta-phor of writing and deciphering. The old stone façade ensures continuity with the urban fabric and houses of Figeac. The screen façade is set back from the alignment and designed as a composition in glass and copper animated by alphabets. This is the polyglot typographic moucharabieh.
Between these two façades are loggias open to the public, and high up, the soleilo, a feature borrowed from the vernacular architecture of the Figeac region. The depth of the façade forms a public transition space between square and museum.
The façade reflects a blend of artisan and industrial processes.
It expresses poetic modernity inspired by living vibrating light - light that breathes and measures time. Luminous and mysterious by day, at night it is part of the lights of the town.
The façade is composed of a sheet of copper laid over a polymer film. Layered glass carries the copper sheet and film between two separating sheets of PVB.
Graphic artist designed the overall composition of this façade; he etched each letter so that it appears in positive on the copper sheet.
The world famous egyptologist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) was born in Figeac; he is the tutelary figure of this museum.
From the origins of writing to the new territories of telematic networks, the museographic itin-erary proposes several modes of entrance: graphics (the design and creation of signs, their evolution, the role of the support, handwriting, composition) ; systems and grammars (the con-struction of words and sentences, the relationship to language, phonetics); and usages (func-tions and power of writing, civilizations and society).
#France , #museum, #house, #lighting ,#interior_design , #typography , #cultural_center, #graphic_design
@revitalization