The Lorraine regional museum in Nancy is not a building but a territory within which several buildings from different time periods cohabitate. This creates overlapping urban trails, one from the middle ages, one from the « Stanislas era » and one from the 19th century, next to a large wooded park. The new extension is located along this vegetalized area, at the heart of the system.
It shelters the new museum lobby, a temporary exhibition hall and an auditorium. The project as a whole is voluntarily heterogenous, thus creating a « museum-city » in which each building reflects a part of the city’s history, integrates a function or offers a major and distinctive space.
The itinerary is defined by a range of three spatial typologies: the classical spaces in which the major part of the collection is presented, the immersive sequences marking some significant historical events, and finally mediation lounges. Setting the museum «landscape» using these three elements brings a rhythmic variation and creates a highlighted itinerary.
