The Maison des Danse is conceived as a solitaire building. With the most compact possible volume an ideal square emerges in plan. As a compact building, the Maison des Danse is composed to fill out a condensed part of the plot clearly marking and defining the urban space around it. At all four sites of the otherwise straight facade, rounded inversions mark entries/exits, and protected outdoor spaces. This generates the effect of an architecture and urban space that can be understood and used intuitively, and that translates movement and the very essence of dance – into an elegant physical form.