DP MJCCSW 4.10_EN - copie - Maison de la France

Key figures
Total surface area of the building: 2,700 sq.m of usable floor area
24,000 hours of work
Architectural team
Architect: Rudy Ricciotti, assisted by Marco Arioldi
Lighting design: Lightec
General construction engineering design : SUDECO / Site driver : Assouline
Acoustical engineering: Thermibel
Landscape architect: APS Paysagistes Associés
Front engineering : Van Santen
Rudy Ricciotti: brief biography and major works
Born in Algiers on 22 August 1952, Rudy Ricciotti founded his agency in Bandol, a small fishing
village near Toulon.
Trained as both an architect and an engineer, Ricciotti was awarded France’s Grand Prix
National d’Architecture in 2006 and is one of the foremost representatives of a generation of
architects combining great creative prowess with a genuine constructive approach. Among his
many noteworthy projects in France are the Stadium de Vitrolles, which serves as both a
concert venue and a sports arena, the Pavillon Noir / Centre Chorégraphique National in Aix-­‐en-­‐
Provence, home to the Ballet Preljocaj, the repurposed Grands Moulins de Paris, an abandoned
industrial mill in Paris, which was successfully converted into dormitories for the Université
Denis Diderot Paris VII, the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée in
Marseille, and a new wing for the Musée du Louvre in Paris to house its Islamic art collection.
Ricciotti has also designed projects outside France: the Footbridge of Peace over the Han River,
connecting the city of Seoul to Sunyodo Island, the Potsdam Nikolaisaal, which is the new
concert and event hall for the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg, the Nuovo
Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, the Centre International d’Art et de Culture in Liège, and Les Arts
Gstaad, the new cultural centre in this Swiss alpine village known for its classical music festival
founded by Yehudi Menuhin.
Recent accomplishments
Médiathèque et Centre d’Art Contemporain de Colomiers near Toulouse – 2011
Médiathèque de Rouen – 2010
Maison de l’Emploi, Saint-­‐Etienne – 2010
École Internationale ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), Manosque –
2010
Pont du Diable, Gignac – 2008
Centre d’Essais et d’Expertises de la Marine Nationale, Mourillon, near Toulon – 2007
Centre Chorégraphique National d’Aix-­‐en-­‐Provence – 2006
Université Paris VII, conversion of the Grands Moulins de Paris – 2006
Museographic design
Museographic design had been entrusted to EDP & Associés.
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