Paradoxically, the charm of the existing Cinémathèque lay in its simple and utilitarian appear- ance. The home of the national collective lm memory presented itself as an unpretentious accumulation of sheds, concerned more about the contents than the packaging. The exten- sion project accepts this starting point and makes it its own. The structure of the existing buildings arranged in a linear fashion is translated by new additions and remodeling into a composite, ambivalent form of parallel buildings of different lengths.

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Architects: EM2N

Location: Penthaz, Switzerland

Architect In Charge: Bettina Baumberger, Marc Holle (Associate), Jean-Baptiste Joye, Christof Zollinger (Associate)?
Area: 13110.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Roger Frei

Project Team: Julia Berger, Stefan Berle, Laurent Chassot, Nadine Coetzee, Nicolas de Courten, Ruben Daluz, Pascal Deschenaux, Melih Dilsiz, Yann Dubied, Ramona Elmiger, Amélie Fibicher, Marita Gelze de Montiel, Gregor Goldinger, Phillippe Jorisch, Sebastian Knorr, Robert Kuijper, Andreas Lahti, Andrea Landell, Minka Ludwig, Yoshihiro Nagamine, Noémi Necker, Raul Mera, Stéphanie Morel, Klaudija Oroshi, Fabien Oulevay, Jeremias Pellaton, Bernard Radi, Adriano Reis, Miriam Rollwa, Tanja Schmid, Daniela Sigg, Eva-Noemi Thiele, Agata Tyszeca, Danes...