EDC Studio is a recording Studio designed for electronic music artist Etienne de Crecy. DJ and music producer, Etienne de Crecy wishes were to entirely transform his current studio nested in an old building located in a Parisian faubourg. It’s a place where he works all day long, mixing sounds and making new tracks.
As a reference, he sent us an image of a spaceship cockpit. He described the cockpit as a “great space with wide panels, spot lights everywhere”. So we told him “we will make you a spaceship!”.
1. Can you provide more details about the original building (i.e. its age and style), and how you have transformed it?
Located in a narrow street, the building was built in 1840 in a typical Haussmanian style. It is a mixed used building with a stone façade and a large paved courtyard. The studio is nest on the ground floor hidden among atelier and office spaces.
The project consists on an interior design, working with an acoustical box in a box already in place when we started the project.
2. What materials are used?
The project is set in two parts:
The studio is an enclosed space isolated from the main building structure with multiple layers of plasterboard and absorptive materials. The project is a series of plywood structure inserted inside the acoustical box, spaced out to fit rack cabinets in between. Above the racks, the space is filled with colored felt panels designed to allow adding absorptive material beneath it and get the well-balanced acoustics. A vanishing point gives a feeling of a much deeper space than it really is.
The office/lounge area is open to the courtyard with in-built furniture and helps to rest between two captures. The Plywood is used as one material all over the floor and the millwork to create a counterpart to the colorful
Materials :
1. Pine Plywood – Millwork and Floor
2. Fabric – Ceiling – Kvadrat, Divina
3. Linoleum – Floor – Forbo, Marmoleum Walton Black
3. Do you often work in music.with musicians, and is this something you’d like to do more of?
We always worked on conception of music space and really wish to implement it without regards of the scale of the project.
We first started to work on the design of the Rehearsal and recording rooms of the Copenhagen Concert hall for Jean Nouvel as we were part of his team.
While working in Los Angeles for Frank Gehry on the Foundation Louis Vuitton, we worked on the design of the Glass Auditorium.
Back in Paris, we spent 4 years on the construction site on the Philharmonic hall which is a huge music complex with a philharmonic hall, seven rehearsal rooms and a music school including 16 music rooms
