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Atrium, a Montpellier adventure.

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Atrium is an adventure  that began in 2008.

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The project has been multidimensional since
its start,

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but it was mainly founded on the planning
of a new hosting for the university library,

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formerly based in the aging building  of Ramon
Llull for more than 40 years.

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The president of Paul-Valéry University, Anne
Fraïsse, whose third mandate

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coincided with the delivery of Atrium, still
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- I have the great pleasure,  and it’s pretty
rare,

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to be able to inaugurate in 2024,

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a building which I have been  the proponent
sixteen years ago.

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It is the first project that I have signed.

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The first document that I have signed  is the
call for projects Campus Operation,

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at the time, there was nothing  great about
Montpellier 3,

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so we have decided to set this Atrium,

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which gives a whole new perspective of the
university.

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Atrium marks symbolically the entrance of an
university open on its environment.

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- It is the vocation of  academic libraries
in France

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to provide documents to the students, reseachers,
outsiders as well,

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Atrium consists of a set of spaces devoted
for collections and services.

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It is a project which relates to open science
issues,

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issues regarding the access to eletronic documentation

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and more broadly anything that touches to systems

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in support of research and formation.

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The library is both a working tool and a place
of life.

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Atrium is certainly going to be  a quite extraordinary
building,

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from an architectural point of view, it is
definitely an architectural feat,

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the building is appealing,

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symbolically, it is also very important,

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since it is somehow the reward  or the expression
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of our academic community for its library.

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The building was designed  on the background
of the renovation

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of the services provided to the students

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and on an exclusive form of a  patrimonial
and architectural point of view.

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- Here’s an image that sums up the project
fairly well.

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We get directly in the Atrium lobby with the
entrance of the university library,

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then we have this whole ground floor, this
irregular surface

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welcoming everybody in these improvised slopes,

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which are also a place of learning.

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The upper floors can be  reached through the
“Breath”,

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which is a sort of atrium  located in the center,

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making it a kind of  opening on the whole project.

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Reading rooms directly open onto this “Breath”,
this inner courtyard,

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you can go out with the books, and yet you
are still in the library, even outdoors.

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- I think that our university...

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has a tradition

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of common work with its environment,

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which is important,  and Atrium affirms that
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It is a building that is a part of a continuity.

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The first campus that is currently  labeled
heritage of the 20st century

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was already an avant garde campus with a highly
modern architectural mark.

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Atrium, which is also a work of art by itself,

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I was also a member of the jury that chose
this program,

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it became the flagship  project of Campus Operation.

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Campus Operation is a renovation plan of higher
education sites,

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on a national scale.

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Its Montpellier version, after selection by
the state,

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associates the Occitanie region, the city of
Montpellier and the metropolis.

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On the Montpellier territory,

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it is not less than 360 hectares of academic
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that we are possibly talking about.

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Unvoidably,

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a project management specifically devoted to
the project was established.

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- Atrium is a part of a large  framework called
Campus Operation,

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this Montpellier project from Campus Operation,

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was initially chosen

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for the shared ambition,

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as well as the strong mobilization of the state,
local authorities,

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and academic institutions, of course,

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in order to make an unprecedented  effort in
favor of the modernization

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of Montpellier academic territories.

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This comes with shared objectives,

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such as developing the campus life,  strengthening
the link university - city,

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rehabilitating the housing stock, which is
partly dilapidated,

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pursuing the goals relating to the ecological
transition,

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and meeting in the best way the needs of teaching,
research, student life,

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as well as supporting the evolution of practices.

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More broadly, it aims to support the  institutions
in the global competition

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by strenghtning the attractivity  of university
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This attractivity extends  beyond the student
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In the continuity of their tradition of openness
to all audiences,

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Paul-Valéry University and its library,

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enhance the visibility of their offer, through
the prism of Atrium,

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in the style of a connecting link between the
campus and the metropolis.

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The location of the building  has been designed
since the project began

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so that new perspectives should  be available
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- Atrium will feature a showroom.

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Atrium will also be equipped with  an auditorium
of about 150 seats.

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We would like to propose to the academic community
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basically, the locals and every person living
in Montpellier or somewhere else,

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interventions, with, for instance, a  teacher
researcher who will tackle a society issue,

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and through him, the university will somehow

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address a speech, an analysis on some social
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- This building make us proud due to the quality
of the activities that will be proposed,

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however as the Vice President  of the Culture
of the metropolis,

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I’m particularly pleased  to collaborate
on a shared media library

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and an accessibility for the locals,

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as well as the city and  the metropolis of
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- It is an agreement made  with the metropolis,

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the locals will be able to visit Atrium,

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we already have a lot of readers, what we call
external readers,

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in other words, people borrowing documents
against a small paiement.

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We also have a lot of outsiders who come to
consult the documents,

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and that is free,

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and it is possible that this effect,  both
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due to its proximity  to the campus entrance

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with a tramway that will  be a few dozen meters
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we are convinced that we will attract a lot
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- Insofar we don’t have any media library,

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the Vice President of the Culture, and the
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that there could be some  exchanges of documents,
practices,

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relating to culture, reading themes, etc.

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The meeting between  the university librarian

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and the director general of media libraries

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is going to open new avenues of collaboration

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between the University and the metropolis,

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which is really satisfying for all  the cultural
actors of the territory.

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In short, beautiful promises  and great stakes
in sight,

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without a doubt.

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- Atrium will be a reclassification  of the
University entrance,

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the Vasarely entrance, 	the historical entrance
of the University,

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this building of 15 000  square meters is
a new library,

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it is a learning center, however located at
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In 2025, the tramway will arrive on the Domitian
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imagine I’m a student in the year 2025,

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I get out of the tramway vehicle  at the Paul-Valéry
University stop,

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before me is the Vasarely entrance, the University
Atrium,

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the University reception as a  part of the
General Means department,

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so we have made the choice  to put back the
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and some services at the campus entrance,

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we chose to redefine this entrance

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and provide services to the students as soon
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Indeed, Atrium aims more than simply relocalizing
its library.

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Within the development of its project,  Paul-Valéry
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between research, formation,  campus life and
social connexion.

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- Atrium is not a mere library,

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it is also a reception building for the students,

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which explains why it is located at this place,

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furthermore, it is widely open  on the University
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This opening will allow to highlight  the activities
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alongside those of the library.

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The service of Continuous Learning and  Formation,
Handi-Études,

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and the Common Academic service  of Information,
Orientation

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and Professional Insertion.

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- The SCUIO, behind this rather complex acronym

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hides a whole service of about twenty members,

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who work on three fondamental areas:

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first off, documentation and information,

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then comes orientation,

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and finally professional integration.

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So, in order to carry out  these missions within
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we do workshops, meetings,

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interviews with orientation psychologists,

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a whole service dedicated  to job descriptions,

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with up-to-date documentation  about the formation
offer of the University.

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We really want to work with partners who will
move into the Atrium.

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Of course, we will share these  premises with
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but also with Handi-Études and the SAFCO,

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in fact three departments  at the students
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- Handi-Études is a service attached  to the
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it is in charge of the coordination and the
accompaniment

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of the students with disabilities registered
in initial training.

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Its goal is to welcome, inform students with
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take into account their specific needs,

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and propose a  personnalized guiding plan

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by offering human supports and suitable materials
to everyone’s needs.

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- As a hosting place, Atrium is a bonus to
develop our inclusive policy

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as we host more and more students with disabilities,

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so it is also a way

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to show our policy

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that aims to abolish the borders

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between what would be “normal” and what
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Atrium is a symbol,

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it is a game between the inside and the outside,

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and Handi UPVM3, which  will be hosted on this
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demonstrates the inclusive policy of our institution
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- Handi-Études department, how can I help
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- Since the programming phase, we worked to
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including in the University library spaces,

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were compatible with accessibility for people
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visually impaired people, and hearing-impaired
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in order for the whole building to be as inclusive
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So today, for instance,   we have an additional
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for common walkaways

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that are situated between the lower ground
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we have an additionnal passage,

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to allow the people  with heavy motor disability,

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who would not be able to pass through common
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so this is a passage that is dedicated,  in
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which were designed to everyone at the origin.

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The SAFCO is the Service of Learning, Education
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it is organized in four main areas:

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first comes the reception, the support and
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of the people who aspire to  be formed, to
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and register for long-term studies  such as
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or even short-term studies

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such as DU or modules which meet specific needs.

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The SAFCO is also an entry point to  the university
studies through the DAEU,

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which is the Diploma for  Access to University
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It is also a very important mission for us.

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Besides, in connection  with the CFA EnSup-LR,

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The SAFCO also  welcomes course students

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who signed a professionalization or apprenticeship
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Today, it is more than 70 work-linked  trainings
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For the individuals who want to promote their
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or their experience,

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they can also contact our team

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for a  VAE or a VAP

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that will allow them to validate a diploma
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Finally, for the people who want to do a progress
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they also can do a skills assessment.

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There is also an activity which is very important
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these are the relations made with partners
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institutions, professional networks as well.

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We pay close attention to the  valorization
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make it accessible

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through  meetings, salons, and tools,

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that are co-produced  with the SCUIO-IP service,

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and with the teaching staff, such as DiCoPro
booklets

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which have the specificity of valorizing  our
offer based on jobs and skills.

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For us, Atrium is a symbolical that illustrates
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which we are attached to,

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that means a  university open to everyone.

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Paul-Valéry University chose to place  the
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with its library, and other direct  vocations
of services to students,

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at the junction that the Atrium building articulates

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between Montpellier city and the campus.

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A strategic choice,

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for which €56 million had to be deployed,

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10 years of study, as well as 5 years of construction
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This realization rallied many people,

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initially to define what this project should
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then to conduct studies,

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overcome the markets, and finally launch the
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which marked the beginning of the  fieldwork,
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The University managements federated to support
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formerly the COMUE, in its project ownership
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by translating through the  construction, the
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the operational requirements of the University.

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- We needed a first program to justify the
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then a second program  two or three years later,

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to refine, precise, modify, update also,

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given that the students life, their needs,
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change rapidly,  the library’s needs too.

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- Atrium is a long-terme project which associates
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and which has been  affected by multiple events,

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one of them being the health crisis.

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I reiterate that the  construction work started
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- A construction work of this scale  is organized
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first off, in terms of studies,

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we make the planning of the future construction
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that we define precisely the construction main
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and the teams formation,

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notably the work construction management and
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we define the duration  of the construction
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by phase and by pack.

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All that is then cleaned up,

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as and when the construction work advancement,

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especially at the start of the construction
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with all the companies on the final schedule.

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Beyond the outstanding scale of its plannification,

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in order to grasp the complexity and the particularity
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such as that of Atrium, it is essential to
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The design of the building, its ecological
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the methodology of its construction,  or its
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set up as prowess with its share of challenges.

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- We have this opening on the city,

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this reception, this place that we  cut through
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this base, this ground floor with this field

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that rises

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and welcomes us and the city.

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Also, this superposition of sheets,  different
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we see through this figure  the ground floor
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which connects the whole boulevard, the avenue,
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all the external elements, like a building
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and these reading room floors, which are similar
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- There has been a huge joint effort with
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to validate the curves, the shapes, the methodologies...

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We even went to Gaillard formwork factory

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to check that everything was good.

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It really was a huge work of preparation to
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we have 15,000 square meters of flooring, including
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we may have about  10,000 cubic meters of cement,

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and we have about several hundred  thousand
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The conception of the  building is genuinely
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To give shape to this airy architecture  and
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the common principles of burden-sharing on
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- The floorings are usually carried by the
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which are taken by the poles and go down to
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However we could not put  poles at the amphitheatre
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which represents about 300 squares meters,

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is held by a roof beam,

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which instead of bringing down the loads,

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serves to maintain them,  then we pull them
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directly below the flooring to be included
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on three levels.

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that makes about 15 meters long, by 2.80 meters
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and 2.90 meters wide.

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we had to put temporary butons in the floors,

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which we have mounted as the work progressed.

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several tens of tons  of flooring.

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But the Atrium challenge was  not the monopoly
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Almost all the trades were invited  to imagine
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to adapt their speciality  to the construction
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were in good place among the challenges.

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- What makes this project special

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is that we will have to adapt to a support
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When applying a resin, it is liquid.

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This is how it is worked.

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From this point of view, making a risin liquid
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in mass on inclined parts, it’s a real technical
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So, how do we work with it?

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We distinguished between the flat areas and
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then, on the inclined parts, we realize a succession
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which will allow us to obtain this effect of
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which was looked after,  and makes the essence
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namely the monolithic  and continuous aspect.

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We have put a lot of human efforts  upstream
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for the implementation  and product validation
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in order to find the techniques allowing us
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to apply under these conditions, and on these
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By radically modernizing their environment,

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Atrium thus offered to the services taking
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a unique opportunity

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to develop their documentary and educational
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The Common Documentation Service, for its part,

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was anticipating the future of the  university
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- It is both the modernization of the internal
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meaning our in-house kitchen, our workflows
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it is also and first a modernization for access
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since Atrium will allow to put a maximum of
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You should know that currently we have approximately
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in the university library Ramon Llull,

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whose two thirds are in store,

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it is the concept that existed in the 60s when
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and a third part on free access.

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Atrium aims to do the opposite.

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So we are going to put a maximum of our documentary
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for our users,

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we reverse the situation,

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and the second thing concerns everything that
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Practically, it involves a tool that is called
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which is, in fact, a well known technology

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consisting of equipping each document with
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- A RFID chip allows to recognize the book

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by radio frequency.

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the document was recognized by this plate.

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All reception banks will be equipped with this
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as well as the loan machines.

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Atrium will have four loan machines and a sorter
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with two return interfaces.

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What changes is that  currently our loan robots

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work on electromagnetic technology.

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So we have to read the barcode

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which entails a  pretty long manipulation.

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The main advantage of RFID  technology is that
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What we are doing  here is data encoding,

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bibliographic information on RFID chips,

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and we will use RFID technology in the Atrium
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- Behind, there is a gain both in terms for
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and above all, it allows us to redirect the
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by putting staff on  questions relating to
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the loan of digital equipment,

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the group drop-in service, the library's reception
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it will also give us an opportunity to explain
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given that Atrium is basically a library of
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housed on a ground floor and three floors.

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- This will also allow us to sort the returning
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and to dispatch them to the different floors
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on which the thousands of documents from the
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So it will also facilitate the return operations
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Indeed, nearly 700,000 documents

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to catalogue, sort, classify, distribute, and
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A massive relocation was organized for the
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over a period of more than three months,

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from December 2023 to March 2024.

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- We also wanted to consult  the academic community

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to try to do something new,

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something that approaches the users' needs,

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so, we launched a small prototype, in 2019,

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alongside the academic community,

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meaning both the students and the teaching
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to find out what thematic grouping they would
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The layout planned for today results from the
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So today, we will have a room dedicated to
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in the center,

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there will be a humanities and social sciences
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leisure, general culture, and  generalities
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and on the third floor, there will be a more
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with ancient studies, history,

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archaeology, art history, geography,

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classical literature,  as well as all the plastic
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music, cinema, and religions.

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After 57 years of service,

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the Ramon Llull library is bowing out.

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The movers’ passage has emptied it of its
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and turned it into a ghost ship.

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But this is only a temporary sleep,

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while waiting the building's  rehabilitation
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Atrium, on the other hand, is coming to life.

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- This new building, quite futuristic in its
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will truly give a new dimension  to this beautiful
campus.

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- I would say that it is the continuation of
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for a place of knowledge and culture.

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- It really corresponds to the  values of our
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to the values of a university of letters,
humanities, and social sciences.

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- Yes, it is an extraordinary project,  a beautiful
adventure,

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due to the skills brought together,

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due to the chain of actors,

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and the stakeholders  involved in the project.

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- We live in a time perhaps  complicated, which
makes it fascinating,

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and working on a project like this is truly
a gift.

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- Atrium will offer us  an extraordinary showcase,

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we will be at the  forefront of the campus,

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it will serve as a bridge between Montpellier
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- We will be at the cutting edge of technology,

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it is the first Learning Center that was conceived,

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and even delivered, I believe, even if  it
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to a university of  letters and humanities.

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Atrium, one of the latest generation Learning
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is also a tribute to the past.

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In this regard,

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it is a tribute to the antique architecture

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designating the reception area for the guests
in a house.

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However, its designers wanted also  to conjugate
its denomination

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through the prism of our century.

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In french, Atrium is an acronym,

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for Accueil (home), Travail autonome (self-employment),

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Ressources Informatiques Universitaires de
Montpellier  (University Computing Resources
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Due to its scale and  its ethereal architecture,

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some will see it as a celestial building.

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Thus, like the moon,

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Atrium lights up by nightfall.

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And likewise,  it also has its hidden side,

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almost invisible

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when we observe it from the university campus.

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Filmmaking by Fabrice Belmessieri

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Interviews by Fabrice Belmessieri

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except for François Gillard, Interview by
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Image / Sound / Drone by Fabrice Belmessieri

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3D infography GAU for 3M

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Music Royalty free music

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Thanks to: Delphine Côme, Cédric Sudres,
Emmanuelle Schepp, Gilles Rouffineau

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Translation / Subtitles by Yacine Drahmani