Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
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Bookshop and reading hall at KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels
More than a museum, the Kanal project is a real public space, which re-enacts pre-established cultural cartographies. Celebrating the urban at its most inclusive, the project invites us to think of the bookshop and the reading room as a space in its own right. The relatively small size of these spaces, located on the Piano Nobile of the former garage, offers a unique condition to create a place where the notion of comfort, refuge and a certain domesticity can prevail. While playing on this idea of a permanently open public space, we feel it is necessary to awaken the user’s sensitive perception and reinforce his physical inclusion in a reading room with a particular character: between a public square and the intimacy of a living room.
Team
Radim Louda, Paul Mouchet, Valentin Piret,
Martha Virgaux, Sophie Dars, Pierre Leguillon,
Aïcha-Louise Wenger, Flavia Vilkama
- Reference
- P-0098
- Program
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- Culture
- Location
- Brussels
- Area
- 750m²
- Completion
- 2025
- Client Type
- Public