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In this context, FRAC Centre is located at the ormerSubsistances militaires site in Orlans. This architectural ren-ovation was undertaken by the Centre region, the contract-ing authority, in cooperation with the state - Ministry o Cultureand Communication - regional oce o cultural aairs (DRAC),Europe (under FEDER) and the City o Orlans.

Innovative and daing ahiteteArchitects Jakob + MacFarlane, managing the project, haveopted or a strong physical presence. The extension, christenedThe Turbulences, because o its preabricated tubular struc-ture covered by an anodised aluminium casing, conceptualizesdynamic architecture. Partly covered by an interactive veil olight, produced by the associate artists Electronic Shadow, theTurbulences will be programmed in real time.

New Feate

The FRAC Centre will have new eatures within its 3,000 m2

: apermanent gallery (370 m2) displaying the collections fagshipworks; temporary exhibition rooms approximately 1000 m2; apedagogical workshop (180 m2); a documentation centre; a gar-den designed by ruedurepos (400 m2).

The Turbulences (370 m2), a public reception area, comprises acaeteria, a bookshop and an auditorium. Furthermore the FRACCentre benets rom outsourced art work reserves (1,500 m2).

The FRAC Centre, a research laboratory or architecture, willprovide a valuable tool or developing a transdisciplinary culturalprogramme centred on relationships between art, architectureand design.

From 14th September 2013, the Regional Fund forContemporary Art in the Centre region (FRAC Centre)opens its doors in a new location perectly in tune with its mis-sions and vocation: the diusion o contemporary art andarchitecture.

The dynamic development o the architectural extension con-cept rom architects Jakob + MacFarlane, gave the new venueits name: The Turbulences.

The programme will be heralded by the 9th ArchiLab, interna-tional architecture meeting and some thirty events a ssociatedwith Orlans and in the Centre region.

The FRAC Centre

A niqe oetion of ahiteteThe FRAC, a result o the cultural decentralisation in the 1980s,o a specic agreement between the state and the regions, whoare celebrating their thirtieth anniversary this year, have becomea model or the diusion o contemporary art and regional pres-ence. A perpetually evolving model, as evidenced by the FRACCentre.

A collection, a laboratory, a resource, and a centre or research,as well as a site or experimentation, the Turbulences - FRACCentre will oer another experience o ar t and architecture.

Its unique collection brings together contemporary art and exper-imental architecture rom the 1950s to today. Internationallyrenowned, to date it includes some 15,000 architectural draw-ings, 800 models and 600 works by artists.

The FRAC Centre, unded by the Centre region and the Ministryo Culture and Communication, is one o a new generation o

FRAC institutions that have already proved themselves as centreso cultural appeal. The objective is to engage dialogue betweendisciplines at the heart o new equipment. Its programme will

join: museum collection unctions and artistic experimentation,mediation and cultural activities.

press release april 2013

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The Turbulences - FRAC CentrePhotograph o construction site, Orlans,2013, Jakob + MacFarlanePhoto credit: Nicolas Borel


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soma, Thematic pavilion Expo 2012 Yeosu, Core soma

ICD (A. Menges) & IKTE (J.Knippers),ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion, 2011Stuttgart University, 2011

Akihisa Hirata Architecture Ofce, Bloomberg Pavilion, 2011Photo Takumi Ota, Courtesy o Akihisa Hirata Architecture Ofce

Bloom Games (Alisa Andrasek, Jose Sanchez),Bloom, 2012 Bloom Games

Deigne and fahion deigne Cmmnwlth. Iris van Herpen Joris Laarman Lab

Atit Federico Diaz Perry Hall Casey Reas Marius Watz

Ahitet

[Ay]A Studio (Joge Ayaa)

B+U

Biothing (Aia Andaek)

ecoLogicStudio

Eragatory (Iaie boh)

EZCT Architecture & DesignResearch

Faulders Studio(Thom Fade)

Gage / Clemenceau Architects

Gramazio & Kohler /Raaello dAndrea

Michael Hansmeyer(ave benjamin Dienge)

Akihisa Hirata architectureofce

junya.ishigami+associates

Kokkugia

MAD Architects

MarcosandMarjan

MaterialEcology (Nei Oxman)

Matsys (Andew Kde)

Achim Menges

Minimaforms

Plasma Studio

Ruy Klein

Jenny Sabin

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SJET (skya Tiit) SPAN

Supermanoeuvre

Wendy Teo

MARC FORNES &THEVERYMANY

Daniel Widrig

X_TU Architects

Xuberance (steven Ma).

sympoimThe challenges o this exhibition will covered in two symposiums:

Architectures and Sciences: a new naturalness,international symposium, Scne Nationale dOrlans,Thursday 24th October 2013, 9:30am-6pmIn partnership with the Maison de l architecture du Centre andthe Rseau des maisons de l architecture (Maison de larchitec-ture network), the international symposium will bring togetherarchitects displayed as part o ArchiLab.

The Nature of the Artefact, Domaine National de Chambord,Friday 25th October 2013, 10am-6pmAn interdisciplinary symposium combining history o art, archi-tecture and epistemology in the sciences rom the Renaissanceto digital tools.

Free entry, by reservation only.

Created in 1999, the prerogative o this internationally renow-ned event is to be a true laboratory or architecture, presentingthe most advanced research in terms o architectural creation oneach occasion.

Curated by its ounders, Marie-Ange Brayer, Director o FRACCentre and Frdric Migayrou, Deputy Director o the CentrePompidou, MNAM-CCI, this new event Naturaliser larchitec-ture (Naturalizing Architecture) is devoted to the interac-tion between digital architecture and the sciences, exploring thechallenges aced in simulating the living world.

Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools,

architects envisage projects which evolve according to principalssimilar to those ound in nature. In close proximity to science,they develop a high level o prociency in mathematics, whichenables them to articially simulate ormation and growth pro-cesses unique to the kingdom o lie.

The architecture is thereore designed like an organism inconstant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interac-tion with the material conditions o its environment..

Broadly exceeding the boundaries o their practice, architectsnow develop a practice at the crossroads o design, computerscience, engineering and biology. Conditions or production inthe domain o architecture are radically redened by this conver-gence, as well as by the constant evolution o the processes and

tools or digital manuacturing.For the rst time, these new design processes which integratethe elds o robotics, nanotechnology, genetics and biotechno-logy are presented through research o a new generation.

The 9th ArchiLab is an opportunity to discover projects by 40architects, designers and artists through interactive environ-ments, installations and pavilions, designed specically or theexhibition..

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Contacts

The Turbulences - FRAC Centre

From 14th September:

88 rue du Colombier 45000 OrlansEntrance boulevard Rocheplattetel.: + 33 (0)2 38 62 52 [email protected] (inormation, reservations, etc.)www.rac-centre.r

CmmunctnAmie Evad

Tel.: + 33 (0)2 38 21 79 53 | [email protected]

Ntn nd intntn pHeymann, Renoult Associes

Tel.: + 33 (0)1 44 61 76 76

saah Heymann, raphae Get, Eeonoa [email protected] | [email protected]

rgn pKim Hamitane

Tel.: + 33 (0)2 38 70 31 40 | [email protected]

Archipel30 eated event

From March 2013 to January 2014, the FRAC Centre is colla-borating with its partners in the Centre region and in France tooer an outstanding programme o 30 preparatory and opening

events: exhibitions; meetings; conerences etc.Orlans Amis des Muses dOrlans; Agence dUrbanisme delAgglomration orlanaise; Astrolabe; Carmes Village; Centrechorgraphique national dOrlans; Centre culturel de lUniver-sit dOrlans; Centre Dramatique National dOrlans / Loiret /Centre; Centresciences; CHD Fleury-Les-Aubrais; Cinma LesCarmes; Conseil Rgional Ordre des Architectes du Centre,Orlans; ESAD Orlans; Gare dOrlans; Les ditions Hyx;Labomedia; Librairie Chapitre; Librairie des Temps Modernes;Maison de larchitecture du Centre; Mdiathque; Muse desBeaux-arts; Musum dOrlans; Polytech; Scne Nationale.

Centre region Les Amis du FRAC Centre; Association des per-sonnels scientiques des muses de la rgion Centre; Atelier

Calder, Sach; bip TV; CAUE dEure-et-Loir, Chartres; CentredArts et de Nature - Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire; Ciclic,Chteau-Renault; cole municipale des beaux-arts, Galeriecollge Marcel Duchamp, Chteauroux; Domaine National deChambord; ENSA Bourges; ESBA Tours; Muse de lHospice-Saint-Roch, Issoudun; Ple des arts urbains, Tours; Transpalette,Bourges; Ville dAmilly; Universit Franois Rabelais, Tours.

France Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Paris; Cit de larchitec-ture & du patrimoine, Paris; Les Abattoirs, Muse dart moderneet contemporain, Toulouse; Apollonia, changes artistiqueseuropens, Strasbourg; Rseau des maisons de larchitecture,Paris; Pavillon de lArsenal, Paris; cole darchitecture Paris-Malaquais; La Panace, Centre dart contemporain, Montpellier;

Centre International dArt & du Paysage, le de Vassivire; CentreNational des Arts Plastiques.

International University College o London, Bartlett School;IAAC-Institute or Advanced Architecture o Catalonia,Barcelone.

Open Doors/ European Heritage Days

study 14th nd sundy 15th stmb2013To celebrate its opening, the Turbulences - FRAC Centre invitesthe public to participate in the open doors during the week-end

o the 14th and 15th September. Spanning these two days, visitorswill have ree access to the buildings architecture as well as thepermanent gallery and the 9th ArchiLab. Guided tours will takeplace every hour. Musical and estive events, special meetingswith the associate architects and artists will also take place overthese two days.

Catalogues

Publication May 2013.

Catalogues of the FRAC Centre collection:

Architectures exprimentales 1950-2012(2003 edition updated and increased), 640 pages,ditions HYX.

Art & Architecture, FRAC Centre collection(new), 304 pages, ditions HYX.

Publication September 2013.

The Turbulences - FRAC Centre,Jakob + MacFarlane architectsMonograph, 120 pages, bilingual, ditions HYX.

ArchiLab 2013 Catalogue, Naturalizing Architectureunder the direction o Marie-Ange Brayer and Frdric Migayrou,260 pages, bilingual, ditions HYX.

Bernard Tschumi, Chronomanifestes 1950-2010FRAC Centre collection, 128 pages, bilingual, ditions HYX.

Practical Information

Opening Hours (from 14th September 2013)

Wednesday Sunday: 12pm-7pm.

Late opening until 8pm on the 1st

Thursday o the monthEntry to permanent gallery & exhibitions

Full price: 4 Concessions: 2 Annual pass: 10

Free entry 1st Sunday o the month.

Guided visit payable on reservation.Bilingual French-English visioguides..

Opening programme available from June 2013.



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The FRAC Centre

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Media partners

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Fonding patne

The Turbulences FRAC Centre

The Tene - FrAc cente i popet y of the cente region and enefited fom Eopean union ppot, withinthe famewok of ErDF, the Fenh state and the city of Oan.

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Regroupement des Fonds rgionauxd'art contemporain


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Created in 1999 by the City o Orlans and co-ounded by Marie-Ange Brayer and FrdricMigayrou, ArchiLab, laboratoire international

darchitecture, was immediately acclaimedas a reerence event or a young generationo architects oriented towards research andexperimentation. Since its creation, ArchiLabhas become a peerless platorm, enjoyingwide national and international renown.

THE 9TH ARCHILAB EVENTNATURALIZING ARCHITECTURE

The new ArchiLab event will introduce thelatest progress in terms o research in digitalarchitecture and its interaction with the scien-ces, permitted by the simulation o growthphenomena in the living world.

This international exhibition will bringtogether the projects o 40 architects, design-ers and artists, who will present their work andthe relation it builds with nanotechnology,biotechnology and simulation.

The public will have a chance to discovermodels, digital shows, screenings, and inter-active environments, as well as experi-mental pavilions, specially designed or theexhibition.

Curators

Marie-Ange Brayer, Frdric MigayrouAssistant curatorEmmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou

ExhibitionARCHILABARCHITECTS

[Ay]A Studio (Jorge Ayala)

B+U Biothing (Alisa Andrasek) Niccolo Casas ecoLogicStudio Eragatory (Isaie Bloch) EZCT Architecture & Design Research Faulders Studio (Thom Faulders) Gage / Clemenceau Architects Gramazio & Kohler / Raffaello dAndrea Michael Hansmeyer

(avec Benjamin Dillenburger) Akihisa Hirata architecture ofce junya.ishigami+associates Kokkugia MAD Architects MarcosandMarjan MaterialEcology (Neri Oxman) Matsys (Andrew Kudless) Achim Menges Minimaforms Plasma Studio Ruy Klein Jenny Sabin servo soma SJET (Skylar Tibbits) SPAN Supermanoeuvre Wendy Teo MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY Daniel Widrig X_TU Architects Xuberance (Steven Ma)

DESIGNERS & FASHION DESIGNERS

Cmmnwlth. Iris van Herpen Joris Laarman Lab

ARTISTS

Federico Diaz Perry Hall Casey Reas

servo,Aqueotrope pavil ion, 2011


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ARCHITECTURE AND SCIENCES:A NEW NATURALNESS

Thursday 24 October 20139:30 am-6 pmScne nationale, OrlansIn partnership with the Rseau des maisons delarchitecture and the Maison de lArchitecturedu Centre.

The problematics o ArchiLab 2013, involvingdigital architecture and the sciences, willbe broached at an international symposiumwhich will bring together ten exhibited archi-

tects. They will present their latest research,dealing with changes occurring in the veryconcept o nature and ecology.

Participants: Alisa Andrasek (Biothing),ecoLogicStudio, MarcosandMarjan,Philippe Morel (EZCT Architecture & DesignResearch), Marc Fornes (MARC FORNES& THEVERYMANY), Michael Hansmeyer,Achim Menges, Theo Spyropoulos(Minimaforms), soma, Anouk Legendre (X_

TU Architects).

THE NATURE(S) OF THE ARTEFACT

Friday 25 October 201310 am-6 pm

Domaine National de ChambordUnder the scientifc supervisiono Frdric Migayrou.

This interdisciplinary conerence will bringtogether historians o art or architecture andscientists (biologists, geneticists, specialistsin simulation systems o the living world). Theywill question the sources o the Renaissanceand Mannerism, linking them to the present-day arena o digital technologies.

Participants: Patricia Falguires, AnnickLesne, Giuseppe Longo, Frdric Migayrou,Spyros Papapetros, Franck Varenne,

Anthony Vidler.Free entrance

Necessary registration: www.rac-centre.r

NATURALIZING ARCHITECTUREARCHILAB 2013

Under the direction o Marie-Ange Brayerand Frdric Migayrou

288 p., French / English, ditions HYXTo be published in September 2013

In this bilingual publication, essays by interna-tionally renowned philosophers, mathemati-cians and scientists will place the projects onview in the wider ramework o a line o think-ing about the theoretical and architecturalchallenges o simulating the living world.

Authors: Marie-Ange Brayer, FrdricMigayrou, Graham Harman, Annick Lesne,Giuseppe Longo et Nabil Zakhama, RivkaOxman, Lambros Malafouris, FranckVarenne.

Symposiums Catalogue

ICD / ITKE University of Stuttgar t, Prof. Achim Menges, ICD/ITKEResearch pavilion, 2011, ICD / ITKE University of Stuttgar t

Plasma Studio, Xian Flowing Gardens, 2011


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BLOOM GAMES, ALISA ANDRASEK, JOSE SANCHEZ

Bloom, 2012

Commissioned to celebrate the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London, Bloom is asocial and collective installation, created by passers-by who join in game o assembling anddismantling these plastic modules, generated rom computerized procedures, based on prin-

ciple o prolieration and organic growth.

MICHAEL HANSMEYER WITH BENJAMIN DILLENBURGER

Grotto Prototype, 2012

Specially devised or ArchiLab, this grotto-like immersive environment is at the crossroads o

nature and architecture. It has been made using state o the art 3D printing techniques, andadvanced mathematical research which ragments the orm, giving the impression o enteringinto the world o the inravisible and the cellular.

FOCUS

Michael Hansmeyer

Bloom Games


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MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY

Double Agent White, 2012

The pavilion Double Agent White was made in 2012 at the Atelier Calder (Sach) and is parto the CNAP collections. This pavilion, made up o interlocking spheres, between interior andexterior, lters light and creates a complex spatiality, resulting rom parametric procedures.

SOMA

One Ocean Thematic pavilion Expo 2012 Yeosu, South Korea

Produced as part o EXPO 2012, the pavilion One Ocean rises up between earth and sea, in the

old industrial port o Yeosu. Its dynamic and fuid architecture is like the ocean. But it is aboveall based on the mastery o energy perormances, as with the kinetic aade which controls theaeration.

Atelier Calder.Photographie Guillaume Blanc

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From September 14th

88 rue du Colombier 45000 OrlansEntrance on boulevard Rocheplatte

Tel. +33 (0)2 38 62 52 [email protected]

More inormations about the FRAC Centre:www.frac-centre.frFacebook, Twitter & Vimo

Opening hours

Wednesday to sunday: 12 pm - 7 pm

Late night opening until 8 pm every rstthursday o the monthClosed on December 25th and January 1st

Admission to the exhibitions

Full price: 4 Reduced price: 2 Admission free on the rst Sundayo the month

Annual pass: 10 Visioguides (french-english): 2

Prices to guided visits

Adult group visits (10 to 20 people) bybooking: Wednesday to Friday: 100

Saturday and Sunday: 125The Week-End Rendez-vous(booking recommended): Satudray and sunday at 4 pm: 8 per person

Flash visits (30 min): Friday at 1 pm: 5 per person

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Cover image:Akihisa Hirata, Bloomberg pavilion, 2011 Takumi Ota Photography

Le FRAC Centre est fnancprincipalement par la Rgion Centreet le Ministre de la cultureet de la communication.

Founding Partner

Main Partner

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