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Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Michel Barbier

Additional information: The Sports and Spectacle Palace of Forest-National is a vast edifice with a seating capacity amounting to more or less 7.000 spectators. The hall has the form of a rectangle of 80 m x 70 m within which a ring of a 68 m diamieter is inscribed. This ring determines the tiers being circular and having the capability of surrounding totally the hall with a gird.The slope of the tiers has been the object of a profound study so as to secure an integral visibility from all places. Numerous passages in form of diazomas as well as well-disposed exit Communications allow for a good circulation and a rapid evacuation of spectators. The principal characteristic feature of the sald hall is lying, in spite of its important dimensions, in its great polyvalence. In fact, the system of removable tiers and the easily transformable acting area, having been specifically arranged for this hall, permit to propose to the users a great variety of spatial types both in the domain of sports and in the field of spectacles, for instance: theatre with an open scene for the ballet, theatre for antique tragedies, circus, arena theatre, classical theatre, jumping, velodrome, figure skating show, collective hall games, basket-, hand-ball, tennis, etc. On the other hand, a special technical equipment and an unparalleled machinery as well as the scenic lighting system installation are totally incorporated into the ceiling which presents itself in form of a self-supporting construction equipped with a net of footbridges being easily accesible from technical cabins above tihe hall. These register all the commands being needed for the direction of various spectacles and manifestations that can be accepted by this Palace of Sports and Spectacles.

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• Paul Felix

Additional information: This hall, which is a part of a complex being intended for an artistic training of future users of a theatre hall, has been conceived so as to allow for the aspirants to approach the techniques being employed in the field of theatre and to get acquainted with their functional routine. On the other hand the possibilities of transformation and adaptation of the hall to various theatre types have been searched for on letting largely open all facilities for a research of the experimental theatre. The hall has the form of a square in the midst of which a 2,40 m deep vat is located being equipped with three elevator platforms which can be operated separately at different levels up to + 1,70 m. The circumference of the vat permits also the placement of small steplike removable set pieces being fixed to the wall which in their entirety give a flexible range of applicability. The walls are encircled with a footbridge ranging up to + 4m.. 2m, the technical ceiling consists of metallic floor elements allowing a free circulation, in which the ligliting equipment and 70 precise autonomous and synchronized fly lines are located. In being positioned at the end wall of the large hall, the stage director's cabin regroups the entirety of commands and allows for an easy direction of the performances. This training centre has been erected under the auspices of the Ministry of Flemish Culture in Belgium.

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• Claude Goelhen

Additional information: The Ministry of French Culture in Belgium has — under the participation of a consultative commission — induced the elaboration of a series of studies in order to find out several formulae of foyers and cultural centres complying with the necessities and possibilities of small communities of our country. These studies aimed at proposing schemes for future authors of projects. One of these schemes has been conductive as for the programme to the realization of the Cultural Centre at Quévaucamps. The theatre hall of the said Cultural Centre has been taken into consideration as a polyvalent space in order to correspond with the programme necessities. It was expected to permit the exploitation of the proposed arrangement as a hall both for stagy performance and for sports or various meetings complying above all with certain local traditions. The hal presents itself in form of a vast play-ground allowlng by its dimensions the practice of certain ball grames such as the basket-ball, the volley-ball, the tennis etc. On the other hand the utilization for theatrical performances has been secured by the easy manipulation of 6 groups of tiers being telescopically mobile (of which three groups can by means of a freight elevator be lifted so as to form a dresscircle) and which, being disposed of in different ways, enable the users to bring into effect all the habitual forms of scenic option. A net of footbridges as well as a certain number of suspension points are destined for securing the illumination and the necessary machinery in the course of various spectacular opportunities. A technical cabin being positioned above the balcony reunites all the commands being of interrest for the directions of all possible manifestations ocurring in this hall.

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• Arsēne Joukovsky

Additional information: This study represents a part of the programme having been induced by the Ministry of French Culture in Belgium under the same titel as tihe scheme underlying the Cultural Centre of Quévaucamps. The hall being a part of this edifice presents itself in form of a rectangle the dimensions of which offer the possibility to practice at least one collective sport such as the volley-ball. A particular characteristic feature of this hall is lying in the fact that it is equipped with a mobile balcony which with the aid of removable tiers permits to propose a frontal disposition. On the ether hand, in elevating the balcony, one can with the aid of the same removable tiers bring into effect all the habitual dispositions being at present employed within the scope of theatre concerns. The technical equipment is reduced to a reasonable minimum which has been confined to a peripheral footbridge being capable of serving as a lighting gallery, and to a placement into the ceiling structure of a certain numebr of suspension points combined with the flying lines being controlled from the footbridges. A technical cabin being positioned at the end of the mobile balcony reunites the commands being necessary for the direction of spectacles and offers an integral visibility all over the room.

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• Frank Lucas

Additional information: This theatre can be briefly defined as being an "open stage theatre with a transformable acting area and a hall holding a variable capacity". It presents itself under the aspect of semicircularly arranged tiers so as to guarantee a total visibility from all places. These tiers encircle the proscenium by a semi-circle of 9 m in diameter prolonging the vast rectangular acting area of 24 m in width by 11.50 m in depth. This disposition represents the "open stage" formula. Some technical facilities allow for a realization of other formulae thanks to the possibility of rapid transformations. The semicircle proscenium constitutes the half of a central circular platform being divided into three unequal mobile parts which permit to present this platform at all levels ranging right up from bellow to plus 1 m. On the other hand, the first 4 tiers, the levels of which are inferior to the one of the acting area, can be entirely disengaged around the central platform in order to form that way an arena. These same tiers can also be recovered from the side of the semi-circle so as to enlarge the acting area. A total cyclorama of 30 m x 7 m is foreseen and its utilization as projection screen is possible. The entirety of the hall is covered by a technical ceiling with a metallic floor. This ceiling comprises the whole mechanical and electrical equipment being needed for any scenic option. These equipment is conceived so as to allow for a largest possible mobility. A technical gallery encircling in a semi-circle the tiers comprises the various technical cabins from which one can command and direct all the spectacles.

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• Jan
  Jos
  Herman Bogaerde van den
  Driesche van
  Witte de

Additional information: The theatre hall of this Cultural Centre has been studied so as to allow, by rapid arrangements, for most possible variations of contacts between the spectators and the actors and for a search for new formulae within the scope of the experimental theatre. This hall presents itself in form of a square the floor of which is combined of 144 elevating blocks with an amplitude of 1,20 m. In the midst of the hall a part of these blocks is Iocated in a 60cm deep cavity which enlarges in an interesting manner the possibilities of niveau variations. It is easily comprehensible that the absolutely free and varied play of levels offered by this disposition allows for all the forms of theatrical options being habitually utilized as well as for a striving after all other dispositions. The control cabin is suspended from the threedimensional roofing structure. This cabin, which has been the object of a profound study, comprises an equipment permitting to comply with the necessities of all possible spectacles inclusive the cinematographic projection. In addition, the threedimensional roofing structure holds a net of footbridges enabling the access to the equipments of the scenic illumination and to the fly lines being incorporated there.

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