Project name
Academy Mauffrey
Year
2022
Project location
Éloyes, France
Architectural project
Gérald Klauss Architecte
Client
Groupe Mauffrey
Dealer
Formes et Couleurs
Lamm furniture
260 Futura armchairs with tablet
Photographer
Images Courtesy of Gérald Klauss Architecte
A compact, conference-ready solution was adopted
in Éloyes, France to bring a 260-seat auditorium, on
a campus spanning more than 6000 square metres,
dedicated to the learning of haulage professions to
life.
The campus is that of the Mauffrey Group—a
leading French company in transport and logistics—
Academy. For the large auditorium, the French giant
chose the Futura armchair equipped with a tip-up
writing tablet. This beam-mounted chair, featuring
an extremely resistant frame and a seat, armrest and
backrest that move in synch with each other, rests
vertically when not in use, taking up just 19 cm of
space. In total, 260 chairs, all of which have a faux
leather-upholstered seat and backrest, polyurethane
armrests and electrical sockets, were installed.
Electrification was possible thanks to a series of
cables hidden along the loadbearing horizontal bar.
Thanks to this, the cables (running from the floor to
the chairs) were contained in one raceway per row.