The Grainerie
Brownfields + Cultural | Grainerie |
The Grainerie - TOULOUSE 31
Circus and Itinerant Arts Factory BALMA
| Project management | C.A.G.T. (Greater Toulouse Agglomeration Community) |
| Surface | 3 200 m2 |
| Cost | 5 000 000 € HT |
| Project management | Lead Architect: Caractére spécial |
| Scenographer: GRIBBE | |
| Landscape: Liliana MOTTA | |
| BET Fluids: BETOM | |
| BET Structure: DVVD | |
| Economy: ALAYRAC | |
| Mission | Complete |
| Date | 2006-2011 |
| Photographic Credits | Olivier 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! »
