Grand Musée d'Art à Nantes
Grand Musée d'Art, in Nantes France will cover more than 17,000m2 to house the art and heritage collections of the area. It involves the refurbishment and extension of the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Nantes.
We are providing sustainability advice on achieving the environment that exhibits and visitors require with minimised energy. We are designing both exhibition and architectural lighting and the acoustics to manage sound without compromising the architecture.
View of the south facing translucent stone façade of the new extension. The innovative façade material is being designed to control heat and light to the buffer space behind.
Controlled natural lighting to the existing galleries is provided through leylights thus reducing electric lighting energy consumption.
Grand Musée d'Art is one project in our continuing story of nearly 50 years of delivering international buildings.