The dialogue with the architects in charge of the historic monuments is engaged in order to design the Avenue of the Palaces. By creating a progressive transition from the urban space to the galleries, this new ambulatory becomes a form of preamble. Situated on the basis, it organizes the different entrance phases in a clear sequence before leading the public to the various activities offered.

The restructuring of the National Galleries seeks to take into account the interdependence between comprehending the work and its formal and conceptual presentation. This becomes a unique opportunity to develop a vast range of diverse “situations” in terms of volumes, light, materials, and their relationship to the outside. It is not simply a question of making the volumes flexible, but of giving them the ability to become an event in and of themselves.

Michel Goudin worked along the competitive dialogue to set an adaptable tool to the size of the challenge.

The Composition and the decomposition of the existing monument and the project. To our contemporary eyes, the Grand Palais is both an idea and a symbol of modernity. It is a hybrid building in terms of its architecture, its usage and its history. Neither a museum nor a simple monument, its architecture has an identity all its own, centered around the notion of a “culture machine,” a spatial means for hosting a vast diversity of events and audiences that exponentially exalts the site’s “universal” and “republican” vocation.

After a 9-months long competition, LAN has been chosen for the restructuring and the extension of the Grand Palais at the very heart of Paris. "The project was held for its respect toward the historic building for the quality and the modernity of the fittings that will allow the enhancement of the Grand Palais. The volume of the galleries around the Grand Nave, the unity of the building and the circulation of the lights will be restored."

The Atrium:a progressive transition from the city to the Art Center

The dialogue with the architects in charge of the historic monuments is engaged in order to design the Avenue of the Palaces. By creating a progressive transition from the urban space to the galleries, this new ambulatory becomes a form of preamble. Situated on the basis, it organizes the different entrance phases in a clear sequence before leading the public to the various activities offered.

The Exhibition Spaces:Thirteen gallery modules for a large flexibility

The restructuring of the National Galleries seeks to take into account the interdependence between comprehending the work and its formal and conceptual presentation. This becomes a unique opportunity to develop a vast range of diverse “situations” in terms of volumes, light, materials, and their relationship to the outside. It is not simply a question of making the volumes flexible, but of giving them the ability to become an event in and of themselves.

The Grand Palais at 1:100

Michel Goudin worked along the competitive dialogue to set an adaptable tool to the size of the challenge.

The Graphic Documents:Redrawing a historical monument

The Composition and the decomposition of the existing monument and the project. To our contemporary eyes, the Grand Palais is both an idea and a symbol of modernity. It is a hybrid building in terms of its architecture, its usage and its history. Neither a museum nor a simple monument, its architecture has an identity all its own, centered around the notion of a “culture machine,” a spatial means for hosting a vast diversity of events and audiences that exponentially exalts the site’s “universal” and “republican” vocation.

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