AN INNOVATIVE PROJECT
The new facility breaks away from the traditional museum-media library-cultural and community spaces. It is innovative in form and spirit. That's what it's all about: offering visitors a new approach that facilitates the exploration of works of art, whatever their form: book, film, pictorial works, music... Here, there's no signposted itinerary. The digital system - collaborative and immersive - opens up multiple paths for visitors, guided by their own interests. A unique experience for everyone!
The thousands of documents acquired by the city have been divided into five multi-faceted universes. Visitors can access them in a highly innovative way, accompanied by a digital device accessible from the main gallery. In principle, the experience resembles that of a web surfer surfing from one subject to another. Les Franciscaines add a playful, interactive and intuitive scenarization in ideal conditions for consultation.
At Les Franciscaines, visitors are active masters of their own choices between the many scenarios, gateways and resources on offer. They explore at their own pace to build their own knowledge, a walk in which surprise is as much a part of the experience as the assurance of finding what they're looking for. The main aim of the project is to encourage visitors to spend time with us.
There's no logic of flow, input-output, numbers... but values of enjoyment, pleasure, discovery and exploration.
Sharing works of art
More on the Franciscan universe"Chat's new about this project is that it doesn't separate the objects of a culture, but brings them together in the same space. Here, at the heart of the same spaces, we find scattered parts attached to a museum, collections or media library. Yet, in general, these parts are spread across different rooms or buildings. What interested us from the outset was to take this idea a step further, and make the idea of "pooling" the very idea of the project. It seemed to us that something had been sketched out in the program, and that it needed to be radicalized so that this pooling would be effective and tangible in the space itself. Instead of presenting bits and pieces, we're presenting cultural objects brought together. This approach is really new, because it's never been done before in cultural facilities. We ourselves have carried out projects in which a museum, a conservatory and a media library are separated from each other; here, we bring everything together. The mixing of cultures, temporalities and knowledge is the very principle of the project".
Alain Moatti - Architect
Alain Moatti Project architect - Agence Moatti & Rivière
