Smart Center, Tournai
The Smart Center is on the outskirts of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai and its belfry. Thanks to these two buildings, listed as Unesco World Heritage, the Smart Center creates a new dynamic. It acts as a touristic space focused on knowledge sharing in terms of art, urban, sacred, technological innovation; a smart centre opened up to the city and to life in Tournai.
Information Sheet
Renovation/Transformation Smart Center.
Location Tournai, Belgium.
Project Cost 11.6 million €.
Time Frame Design: 2019-2020. Construction: 2021-2025. Opening: August 2025.
Owner City of Tournai.
Architect(s) TANK Architectes, France www.tank.fr
Theatre Planner(s) Re:lab, France www.relab.fr
Seat Count A multi-purpose 250-seat auditorium; two flexible spaces dedicated to temporary exhibitions, acting also as meeting rooms, several playful and pedagogical spaces for young audiences, a panoramic terrace “Le Belvédère“ and a restaurant. Total area: 4 950 m².
Uses A “Window” display of miscellaneous know-how, which is neither a museum nor an interpretation centre. A very flexible use with variable configurations (seminars, exhibitions, immersive spaces, networking, tourist season, weekday/weekend, night/day).
Services Comprehensive acoustic consulting services for the entire project from competition to commissioning, including the internal acoustic quality, building acoustics along with noise and vibrations control.
Team Yann Jurkiewicz, Émilie Carayol, Eckhard Kahle, Kahle Acoustics.
Carré Janson, a modular seating space, right in the centre of the garden of the former Hôtel des Prêtres, that can be converted into a 250-seat auditorium. Here the acoustics curtains are stored away to leave a clear passage between the different parts of the building. Photo © Kahle Acoustics
Multi-layered dividing acoustic curtain opened on the lateral side of the seating space converted into a 250-seat auditorium. Photo © Kahle Acoustics
Carré Janson, here in its 250-seat auditorium configuration. Thanks to a multi-layered dividing curtain on all four sides acting as a wall one can visually and acoustically “feel” the auditorium. It also provides support for intelligibility in the seating area (here view from the stage onto the tiered seating). Photo © Kahle Acoustics
Carré Janson, here in its 250-seat auditorium configuration. Thanks to a multi-layered dividing curtain on all four sides acting as a wall one can visually and acoustically “feel” the auditorium. It also provides support for intelligibility in the seating area (here view from the auditorium towards the stage). Photo © Kahle Acoustics
Exhibition space or immersive tour in the former library. Photo © Kahle Acoustics
Exhibition space or immersive tour in the former archive building. Photo © Kahle Acoustics
Roof terrace at the heart of the city of Tournai. Photo © Kahle Acoustics