阿基坦创意经济与文化之家（MECA）

近日，BIG连同其它事务所赢得法国波尔多MECA文化中心竞赛。该中心是一个包含三个文化机构的单体建筑，面积为12000平方米。BIG建议这个文化中心成为当地开放的艺术中心，表演中心，电影中心。大的折型廊道联系城市两侧，在建筑开放的中部形成一个屋顶平台。

BIG创始人Bjarke Ingels表示：这个投资数百万元的新文化机构，不应该只成为文化艺术精英的殿堂，也应该邀请市民常来活动，融入城市公共空间，成为一个开放的，亲切的艺术场地。文化与社会生活在这里相互交融，相互激发。建筑靠近城市主要河道，拥有令人羡慕的滨水景观。将生活融入意思，建筑用坡道和楼梯创建出一个可达性很高的公共空间，成为滨水空间的一部分，在特殊的日子，可以举办露天音乐会，戏剧表演和艺术展览。

BIG合伙人Andreas Klok Pedersen表示：这里城市空间，也是艺术的天堂：舞台，放映室。更重要的是，建筑让两者水乳交融。这个单体建筑完美满足内部的各项功能要求。外表皮采用城市传统的石灰石，仿佛从城市中长出来一样，与周围的建筑连在一起。

FREAKS事务所的合伙人Guillaume Aubry, Cyril Gauthier & Yves Pasquet表示：国际竞赛公正的选拔结果，有利于当地的文化发展。

BIG DESIGNS A MECA TO CULTURE IN BORDEAUX, FRANC

Team BIG+FREAKS freearchitects, dUCKS sceno, Khephren Ingenierie, VPEAS, ALTO Ingenierie, Vincent Hedont, PBNL, Mryk & Moriceau, Ph.A wins the competition to design a new 12 000 m2 cultural center on the riverfront of Bordeaux, merging three cultural institutions into one single building

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The new Maison de l’economie Creative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, MECA, located on the historical riverfront of Bordeaux will house three regional visual and performing arts agencies FRAC, the ECLA and the OARA in one single institution. The Regional Council of Bordeaux selected the winning team among proposals from SANAA, the Toulouse-based firm W-Architectures and Bordeaux-based FLINT.

BIG’s proposal arranges the new center for contemporary art, the performing arts institution and the center for literature and movies around a public space open towards the city of Bordeaux and the Garonne River. The building is conceived as a single loop of public space and cultural institutions as the pavement of the promenade rises to form the roof of the main lobbies, ascends vertically along the stage tower of OARA, bridges across the promenade with the sky lit galleries of the FRAC and returns vertically to the ground at the archives of the ECLA in order to reunite with the waterfront promenade.

“When a region or a city invests millions in a major new cultural institution – it often ends up benefiting only the informed few that already have an interest in the arts. Not only does the MECA spill its activities into the public realm and the urban room, but the public is also invited to walk around, through, above and below the new cultural gateway. By inviting the art into the city and the city into the arts, the MECA will provide opportunities for new hybrids of cultural and social life beyond the specific definitions of its constituent parts.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.

The urban room allows everyday life of Bordeaux to flow through its generous frame along the promenade, injecting the art into the city and the city life into the building. The multiple ramps and stairs of the building create an institution that is publicly accessible and welcoming on the inside as well as the outside. The urban room and the informal seating of the stairs will make the MECA a lively place and a natural extension of the life along the Quai de Paludate street and the new promenade. During festivals or other special occasions in the city, the outside of the MECA can be transformed into a stage for outdoor concerts, theatrical spectacles or art installations.

“The urban room is at once a frame for the artwork, a stage for the performances, a screening room for the media collections and most perhaps most importantly an open room for the urban life of Bordeaux to invade and engage with the arts.”, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner-in-Charge, BIG.

Tailored to accommodate the proportions of the performance spaces, the backstage requirements, the archives and the art galleries, the building is tailored to the needs and desires of its individual tenants while fused to form a single urban frame. The building and promenade is clad in the limestone which constitutes the majority of Bordeaux’s architecture. As if carved from the same material as the city itself – the stone is promenade and faeade, stair and terrace, roof and ceiling all together.

“The three regional entities composing the program are idiomatic to the Frenchpublic way of supporting and promoting culture all over the territory. Working onthe MeCA building in Bordeaux is a great occasion to cross views and balancebetween international references and local issues.” Guillaume Aubry, CyrilGauthier & Yves Pasquet, Founding Partners, FREAKS free architects.

FACTUAL INFORMATION

Name: MECA – Maison de l’economie Creative et de la Culture en Aquitaine

Type: Competition

Size: 12 350 m2

Client: Conseil regional d’Aquitaine

Collaborators: FREAKS freearchitects, dUCKS sceno, Khephren Ingenierie, VPEAS,

ALTO Ingenierie, Vincent Hedont, PBNL, Mryk & Moriceau, Ph.A

Location: Bordeaux, France

Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen

Project Leader: Gabrielle Nadeau

Project Architect: Jan Magasanik

Team: Edouard Champelle, Lorenzo Boddi, Yang Du, Karol Borkowski

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