ATRIUM FOR PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE UNIVERSITY PARIS 6 - 10 rue Cuvier , Paris 75005 - FRANCE
Anne-Françoise Jumeau
The 16M on building on the Jussieu university campus, near the historic center of Paris, extends and completes the grid plan that architect Edouard Albert designed in the 60s to serve 45 000 students and researchers. The response formulated by Périphériques for the extension is based on the existing system, where buildings are laid out in a crown configuration; but at the same it deforms it: where Albert laid out a single patio, Périphériques have planned two. One of them is covered by the bridge-buildings raised on pilotis to make short-cuts in the ring like circulation itinerary, and forms a “vertical place” that groups all the movements of the buildings. This concrete space opposes its heaviness and hardness to the light-weight metal cladding of its outer skin.
At ground floor level, the existing slab on which the university buildings are built folds up in an origami-like ramp to even up natural levels and built in a fluid movement.
The project presents itself as a form that independent and in continuity with an orthogonal grid pre-existing logic thanks to a slightly deviant geometry that tends to make the new building look like solid unitary block.
The programme also evolces: in first phase students will use the new building, which will ultimately be used by under-graduates alone. The plan and the nature of spaces allow for this polyvalence and maintain a neutral presence; tha facades are glazed on the same patern as that existing building. But over the glass metal skin composed of ten types of panels perforated with circular holes of differrent sizes give the facades complex and variable depth. The holes also filter daylight and reflexions over the glass surface and create shimmering effects that give the building a constantly changing, which reminds us that the original plan has “shifted”.
Planning partners: ARCHITECTS : Anne-Françoise JUMEAU ARCHITECTES / Périphériques (chief architect) with MARIN + TROTTIN ARCHITECTES / Périphériques (partner architect) / STRUCTURAL ENGINEER all trade: EGIS Bâtiments / ACOUSTIC ENGINEER: PEUTZ & Associés
Client: Etablissement Public du Campus de Jussieu ( EPCJ )
Category: Education, Science and Research, New Construction
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