The negotiations will be launched on November 24My employer does not compensate me for thisEurope finds itself in a very tense situationA recognized degree is of course essentialIn three years the index had declined from 35It research this is the project the envyNegative the price of wines by the glass 7 clNew forms of payment credit card InternetBut the hole of air in operating margin which is 11Some such as California are incompetentThe effect of surprise is complete and well taken. Slipped into the academic fabric of Jussieu, building 16 M wakes up the site of the Interior: an explosion of colours in the gloom of the University tile, called the "Grill", built by the architect Edouard Albert between 1964 and 1968, fatal to the completion of the project. The approach is by the main entrance circulating on the slab from the place Jussieu: a reddening attracts the eye under the existing buildings. The attention is captured, the step magnetized. Supported Gables waiting for unfinished Grill, the new building burns the soil of its vermilion basement of the adjoining court within the hall. The red carpet at students and teachers of the University of Paris-VI-stone-and-Marie Curie led to a central atrium high to the sky and crossed to escalators. Under a cloud cover of airbags, the floors Gin cotton colours tart behind a perforated wall of molded concrete. The magic is real, of the most explosive in the normative area of the tile of Jussieu 37 identical bars.
Boldness a bit psychedelic
Rue Cuvier along the Jardin des Plantes offers another equally surprising approach. Called building Atrium to form occurs in frontal vision, facade trimmed effervescent envelope travelled bubbles from top to bottom. A image of the University creative boiling", comments David Trottin, a partner of devices.
This collective of architects at the origin of innovative projects including the school of fine arts of Valenciennes, the local Banlieues Bleues in Pantin and déjantées houses, is now known for his iconoclastic boldness and his aesthetic a bit psychedelic pop art-inspired. This bias is relevant here. Architecture rationalist and industrialized Edouard Albert, the King of the tubular construction, is cleverly violated. Subversion is much better seen and experienced the tragedy of Jussieu (asbestos) is in length and that poverty persists in academia despite real efforts by U2000 then U3M, plans for third millennium.
Architects primarily played end, entering their work in the continuity of the grill and the respect of some constructive frames, including those of the facades settled on a step of 1.20 meter. Their building is fitting with the Albert system. He escapes by geometry, construction and architecture, colors showing the break. The existing grid is mauled by slight bias of the facades in alignment, and the Red surface of the slab is folded like an origami to overcome the constraints of the site. Topographic system, red carpet is inclined to join the pavement or arises in a corner to inform the library in the basement. Construction denies the original metal to adopt concrete, relayed many prefabricated elements standard (pré-dalles in floor, lighters on the atrium... panels). Architecture, finally, to déhanche and so happy bubbles on the surface: bubbles of champagne in exterior with the grid of anodized aluminium, bubble of comics on the atrium with precast concrete panels assembled. Free of these effects is quickly defused and these bubbles have something to tell! More than a decoration, "the white grid forms a thick skin and sensitive including the filter is a function of orientation and the allocation of premises, classrooms, laboratories and offices", set out architects. Eight types of vertical height of floor panels thus to modulate the Visual and sun protection. This unifying envelope stops in places to fit large loggias that disseminate the interior color of the floor.
Also appealing it, adopted Colorimetry is not reduced to a decorative effect. It corresponds to various sectors of education spread over eight levels of the building and is part of the overall vision offered by the atrium, facilitating the tracking. Each colour level, deployed from the walls to soils under forms of superbly applied epoxy resins and rubbers with in the rooms. On the escalators that cascade in the atrium, they appear the richness of the exchanges. "Because better to move the people, it's certainly better circulate ideas and knowledge," said Anne - Françoise twin, another associate of devices. "Here, not blind corridors, dead end or endless corridors;" "light bathed circulations revolve around the atrium and open to the outside by various views."
Performance is all the more remarkable that the economy of the construction was strictly framed (EUR 24.8 million for 17,000 m2). The demonstration of the architects of devices focused on the economy of the means implemented, the unit cost of each benefit being precisely detailed. If there is overflow, these are essentially aesthetic and formal.
Transform the daily
Delivered in June after two years of construction, the Atrium building was ready for school. Students and teachers took possession of this hollow volume in joy, and rejoice, worn by the dynamism of this playful and colourful architecture in break with too many university buildings malingering. Eventually grow tired of the shape and colors Well accepted and clearly respected, this new strongest link back fishing to a site that was much needed. And if architecture does not change the life, the transform pleasantly and usefully daily Paris-VI students attracted by the new colours of Jussieu.