Vire media library and auditorium

The brief for the Vire media library and auditorium project includes the renovation of an early 19th century building (badly damaged during the Allied liberation of Normandy in 1942) and its lateral extension to the north of the site as a media library and public garden. This new extension, containing the paper and digital collections, reading and consultation spaces, an open-air planted patio, administrative and archive spaces, is clad in a skin of folded interlocking zinc panels and large glazed surfaces, a portion of which are silkscreened at the ground floor entry level. The works in the adjacent MJC sports and cultural facility (built c.1960) include the conversion of its existing swimming pool at the lower level into a transformable 200-seat auditorium and performing arts space.