Cradle of lace, Calais contemplated for a long time to offer a place on measurement at the Lace Museum previously incorporated into the Museum of fine arts. After a false start, the project is restarted in the more ambitious form of a city of lace and fashion. The program includes the actual collections and introduced a forum open to creators and professionals. The implementation is found in good logic in the old lace factory Boulart called to be restored and enlarged, about 10,000 m2 in total, for delivery in 2007. Built in 1875, this impressive construction of brick developed u around a central courtyard is survivor. Characteristic of collective mills of the time, it is located in the square of the former suburb Saint-Pierre, historic stronghold of the lace-making activity hung up in the city in 1885 and known since as the name of Calais-Sud. Site, inherited from the industrial era, is bounded to the East by the Saint-Omer canal, which crosses the town to the northern city to the Citadel and the port. This conversion, Calais means save the last remnants of its industrial heritage and uses the lace and a breadcrumbs to find the meaning of its history, give body to the city and, more broadly, to boost economic development machine. The city arises on display of a living which still lists some 2,000 jobs and industry looks to the future with a new optimism in the light of the mode.
Immaculate and perforated facade
"The lace, is the art of the day in a tissue or a matter to reveal the bottom", States Alain Moatti and Henri Rivière, architects of the winning project adopted by the Council on 8 March. Combining memory and future, their project file metaphor: the renovated plant is bottom and the forum created extended illuminates the future. Their party prevails on three points: the strength of the urban registration, the simplicity of the spatial resolution and originality of thinking about the museography. The extension is necessary as the project manifest. Located on the canal and just next to the existing, it refocuses the entire building to open it on the city and to forget the old autarky to forge new links with the environment. Mounted on stilts, the reported volume draws a figure l which stands on the side of the plant and returns cantilevered on the canal. "The square built in overview frame a wide forecourt on the dock and can terminate without closing" expose designers. The facade inspired the lace cartons deploys a sheet of metal, including repetitive fatality illustrate the theme and give the magnitude in the connection. The temporary showroom on the entire volume to win a horizon. The Immaculate and perforated facade gives the city its identity: "It is a place seen and a place where we see," comment on architects. "Light as the lace, this flying façade is visible far." At night, illuminated the Interior reasons print Calais sky. To a large modern in appearance, it projects the high tradition of the know-how of lace in urban space.
Thus found a strong presence in the city, the plant Boulart is: "the building in which the permanent exhibitions take place is the first exposed object." It is accessible from both sides, since the new entrance opened on the forecourt and the restored Court. The ground floor open access serves the home, the auditorium, the documentation centre and a restaurant level on the Court. Exposure surfaces unfurl in the floors. Established in the articulation of the old and new, the main staircase built up to the attic is part of the original, wooden beams and poles cast iron structure, in "a kind of architectural exploded which reveals the building constructive intelligence".
Crafts industry
Museography complies with the existing framework, designed to protect the collections while opening to natural light. High glazed bays are renovated in the same. Not an extinguished and dusty Museum, factory sheds light to allow the public in a live stage. Taking advantage of the 4.20 metres of height ceiling, collections take place in an exhibition furniture fits the criteria of conservation and declined as installed objects. The course is chronological, of the crafts industry. Over the visit, the universe of the lace is revealed under all its aspects: social, technical, economic and artistic. To sharpen the focus, each time is illustrated by a thematic resonance. Pieces of lace of the classical era and voisineront with the art of gardens à la française. Vectors of the rise of the tulle in the 19th century, mechanical trades Leavers (by the name of their inventor) initially imported fraudulently Britain, occupy a place of choice. Rendered in a workshop atmosphere, four of these long steel monsters of 15 metres will be presented, bone in two and two in activity. They will be to revive the production of fine lace in the deafening noise of steam and dust from the graphitée oil. Starting from the evocation of the past, Museum-city opens to the dreamlike world of lace, always contemporary material at the edge of the dress refinement. The dream is reality, images brothers technical innovation.
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