Medialibrary La Madeleine

Tank Architectes converted an imposing former police station in La Madeleine, in northern France, into a medialibrary that appears as an extension of the square at street level.

Tank, Mediatheque La Madeleine, La Madeleine, France. Photo Julien Lanoo

The deal of the project delivered by Tank is to restructure and extend a former police station, very imposing on the square des Fusillés et des Déportés but disconnected from its urban environment.

The accessibility of the equipment is modified: the space becomes an extension of the square at street level. The library is divided into two entities: the reception hall and reading room whose schedules may differ.

In the reading room, the qualification of spaces, light and acoustic atmospheres is treated through a roof: the active layer.

The interior atmosphere refers to both warm interior of town houses’ reading rooms and qualities of factories’ open spaces bathed in a diffuse overhead lighting. The media library overlooks a garden which encourages the link between the neighborhoods downtown.

Mediatheque La Madeleine, La Madeleine, France
Program: medialibrary
Architects: Tank
Engineering studies: SNC Lavalin
Economist: PHD Ingéniérie
Acoustics: Daniel Caucheteux
Client: Ville de La Madeleine
Area: 2,200 mq
Completion: 2013

Medialibrary La Madeleine

Tank Architectes converted an imposing former police station in La Madeleine, in northern France, into a medialibrary that appears as an extension of the square at street level.

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