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text:
Bernard Tschumi

panorama photos:
Coert Verkuyl

 lf the new roof acts as the project's common denominator (a large screen-umbrella), we also sought to accelerate the probability of chance-events by combining diverse elements (umbrella and sewing machine meet on the dissecting table), juxtaposing great roof, school/research laboratory and the old Fresnoy, place of spectacle.

Such multifunctional spaces destined to "cover" events (conventions, concerts, sports, exhibitions and their thousands of visitors) will be the urban spaces of the twenty-first century, here reviving a building from the beginning of the twentieth century. At Fresnoy, we can speak of an "architecture-event" rather than an "architecture-object". The interstitial space between the new and old roofs becomes a place of fantasies and experiments (filming and other exploratory works on space and time).

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