Date: 2013
Client: Universcience
Type: Invitation to tender
Location: Cité des Sciences, Paris, France
Area: 1.000 s.m.
Budget: 450.000 euros HT
Phase: Winner - cancelled project
Partners: Maskarade (architects), Vecteur Fluide (engineering), Maud Guerche (graphic designer)
The Cité des Sciences science museum wanted to transform, upgrade and extend the Carrefour numerique - a free-access space dedicated to digital technologies for general public - in order to make it a fablab+livinglab package. The space organisation that we propose is turning around the issue of space flexbility in order to get a real freedom of use. The project is simple: a free plan and a technical ceiling which powers some connection nodes; these nodes are fitted with some connection supports which allow any visitor to plug in the physical network (electricity, Internet, machinery network) and the social network (fablab community).
