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Jezet Seating
Contact
Fritz Gard
Address Siberiestraat 10
3900 Overpelt, Belgium
Website
Jezet Seating has been a supplier of retractable seating systems and
seats for theatres, auditoria and sport halls for more than 35 years.
From our corporate site in Overpelt (BE), we handle the development
process, engineering and production completely in house. The installation
and after-sales service are also handled by our own installation teams to
guarantee long term quality.
Our clients include the most prestigious theatre, conference and sport
halls around the globe.
‘Les Fuseaux’ Cultural Centre - Saint-Dizier, France
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Owner
City Saint-Dizier
Architect
ANMA - Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associes
General Contractor
Jezet Seating
Engineering Office
Jezet Seating
Construction Period 03/2013 - 12/2014
‘Les Fuseaux’ is a cultural centre in Saint-Dizier. This project included the
design of seating on the balcony and a retractable seating system which
consists of 18 platforms with 617 seats. The structure has a total width of
25 m and height of 6 m. Depending on the show, the system can be used
in various configurations: opened, partially opened and closed.
SCIA Engineer was used to analyze the metal structure of the retractable
seating. The excellent interaction between the ‘table input’ and Excel
enabled us to build a parametric model in Excel to export different models
to SCIA Engineer.
In general, moveable platforms create a huge challenge for the structural
design of the stand: the movability restricts the structural design freedom
and the structure needs to be stable with limited deflection in the different
structural configurations. With SCIA Engineer a non-linear second order
analysis could be carried out of both the opened and closed configurations
to ensure a correct functioning of the retractable seating.
