But the access control does not preclude the view

City of tradition paper, Epinal and his industrious nearby Golbey come to acquire equipment for the measurement of the communauté de communes formed between them, to facilitate access to the book and encourage reading with their 48.000 people gathered together. It opened in mid-April, under the denomination of intermunicipal multimedia library (BMI), because there was no question in this country, besides, to adopt the term media library, which evokes other media than paper. Located on the former site of pinal transport company (STAHV), to the East of the town exit building occurs in the form of a minimum volume capoté of Brown steel waxed as old binding. Adjoining the Park of the Castle, he married the retaining wall and profile in the rise of the Saint-Michel Street in redevelopment.

10 Minutes on foot from downtown, the building is the first milestone of the new pole of public facilities decided by the municipality, in the direction of the centre of the Congress and the rink with a multiplex of 8 rooms and a centre of art installed nearby. Sober, the new library is in the discretion, most reported by development of its approaches by its shape and colour. "The image of the book, the wealth is inside," suggests Hélène Hamon, Director of the establishment and Chief Curator of precious funds history repatriated at the heart of the cultural and heritage project. Inherited from revolutionary seizure of 1791, the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Moyenmoutier throne in the centre of the building, restored in its original configuration, the former Fund forming with the carved woodwork of the 18th century.

"This desire to combine the old and the contemporary in a unique building was at the origin of the project," said Michel Heinrich, MP and Mayor of Epinal, welcomed to see the legacy "ringfenced in a true crypt in the heart of the building. Successful among 116 files for entries and winner of the contest between 5 teams selected, Lyon agency Chabanne and partners held its project around this jewel without him sacrificing any functionality expected of a public equipment hospitality and comfort.

Wood-paper sector

Far from being locked and suppressed, woodwork room offers the view of visitors from the entrance, as witnessed by an inner enclosure in pink of the Vosges, open sandstone on the hall by the cutting of a large glass Bay. This opening is not only Visual: according to the wishes of his conservative, the former Fund is accessible to the public two days a week, for 8 persons admitted in the room up.

Aware of the heritage issue, the Agency Chabanne him drew a simple box, right square, developed on two levels. Because of the height of the woodwork, the historic room is located in disbursed. She therefore found in bird's-eye view, under an ad hoc artificial lighting. Oblique faults across the Interior of the volume and intersect, isolating the historic heart of a vacuum which organizes the circulations in perimeter and diffuses the light coming from the roof. The most wide faults defines the area of the lobby, including the crossing, in the axis of the street, is condemned by the consultation of periodicals show installed on the side of town, opposite the entrance. But the access control does not preclude the view. The functional organization is thus performed strokes, services and administration at ground floor, reading the upstairs rooms. The partition is all alone, induced by geometry: adult areas, youth and music on all four sides, with computer stations in view of the wall and hillside, and a space destined for the little ones in the middle. Trays are thus caught between two days, with a Bedcovers in facades and partly-aligned skylight roof Central.

Implemented by the Office of development line and color, the USM Haller furniture system is multiple configurations tailored to each audience, without compromising the diffusion of light on the plateaus. Based on concentric sails reinforced concrete cover is implementing large beams glulam white lasuré that provide a nun effect.

While contributing to the weakening acoustic, this elegant frame replace the project in its context, in full stream Vosges wood. The processing industry are numerous. Golbey has the largest paper mill of France (Norske Skog) and many processing industries, including industrial timber companies, which have found their place in this project.