The pompidou centre's original brief was to provide a "cultural Centre for Paris', which was interpreted by the architectrues to be a 'Live Centre of Information and Entertatinments'. Nevertheless, the competition briefe was to design a building that contained a museum of modern ars, a reference library, a centre for industrial design and a centre for music and acoustic research. Piano and Rogers aimed at the art speciaist to include the casual vistor, te local resident and the tourist, by creating a truly dynamic meeting place where activities would overlap in flexible , well serviced space, a people's centre, a university of the street reflecting the constatly changing needs of users.
The design was intended to be expressive of change as well as its realization in practical terms. Key to this concept was the flexible layout of the building, with services and acess distributed around the perimeter to allow completely open floor plates that could be rearranged in any manner. The expressive, bolt-together structre was layered with cliped-on ans colour-coded access and service elements- people were meant to understand from its appearance the process of architectrue as an enabler from freedom of activity and use. External moving escalators and lifts gave activity and mobility to the facade.
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