Chateau de Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau, France

The Domaine national de Fontainebleau and its château have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981. Here, one finds a condensation of the history of France. Today, it is a château-museum, just like Versailles. Nowhere else does such a historical stratification survive, with each era leaving its mark.

This complex building is the result of numerous architectural transformations, from the medieval period to the Second Empire. With more than 1,500 rooms spread across 130 hectares of park and gardens, Fontainebleau is the only royal and imperial residence to have been continuously inhabited for eight centuries. The Public Establishment of the Château de Fontainebleau has undertaken a vast restoration and modernization program for the Château (2015–2026), as well as its outbuildings. One of the projects in the first phase of the Master Plan for renovating the Domaine national de Fontainebleau is the modernization of the Louis XV Wing.

This concerns the château’s reception areas, arranged as a sequence of rooms, or “cells”, of identical dimensions, forming the ground floor of the Louis XV Wing. Each cell has a unique function: individual ticketing, group ticketing, cloakrooms, audio guides, information, etc.

Studio Jouan provided the acoustic design including site testing and acoustic modelling for the main entrance space of the ticketing office.

Client: Chateau de Fontainebleau

Architects/Exhibition Design: Projectiles

Acoustic Design : Studio Jouan 

Year: 2025