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Stephane Bigoni and Antoine Mortemard’s Rouen Building

Stéphane Bigoni and Antoine Mortemard designed this unique space in Rouen, France in an old storage hangar. The spaces houses an auditorium and exhibit spaces.

Says ArchDaily:

In the middle of the building, a white lattice of lacquered steel surrounds an empty space occupied by a three-storey double staircase. This large mashrabiya captures and diffracts light coming from bay windows above and around it, radiating bursts of light and shadow. Such kinetic intensity gives the space a gentle monumentality. At night, the lattice becomes a lantern, emerging from the lowest floor beneath the hangar’s frame.

Images by Stéphane Bigoni, Antoine Mortemard and Takami Nakamoto

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