The Grainerie

Brownfields + Cultural

Grainerie

The Grainerie - TOULOUSE 31

Circus and Itinerant Arts Factory BALMA

Project managementC.A.G.T. (Greater Toulouse Agglomeration Community)
Surface3 200 m2
Cost 5 000 000 € HT
Project managementLead Architect: Caractére spécial
Scenographer: GRIBBE
Landscape: Liliana MOTTA
BET Fluids: BETOM
BET Structure: DVVD
Economy: ALAYRAC
MissionComplete
Date2006-2011
Photographic CreditsOlivier Amsellem

Rehabilitation of a former military hangar into a circus centre dedicated to the reception of companies and the broadcasting of shows; composed of a theatre, training rooms, reception, bar, offices.

"A Circassian center in a former military hangar. We want to examine images, images of happy space, images of urban space. The space thus seized by the imagination cannot remain the indifferent space. It is lived. »

Gaston BACHELARD.


"Circus artists in fishnet stockingsTurning military men into dancing circus artists who fly on trapezes, there is no word to describe such a mutation! »