Saint-Exupéry research centre

The project is defining a new spatial prototype that apprehends the aesthetics of science for the project of the Institute of Research and Technology Saint-Exupéry (IRT). After having reached the rank of first tie at this international competition, a negotiation phase did not retain the CBA team to develop this adaptable spatial infrastructure as a legible and symbolic articulation between the campus and the linear city of the ZAC Montaudran.

A permanent structure that hosts 28,000 m2 receives in its mesh changing uses. His intuition joins those figured on the plates of the Encyclopaedia that we reinterpret : the Table of Reports.

The three-dimensional framework affirms the free association of ideas by a generous, flexible space, offering new and creative programmatic relationships, allowing open, multiple scalable and productive devices, by a robust structure, offering transparency and comfort.

Combining experimental workshops, parking, laboratories, offices and unaffected areas to date, involves a unitary volume allowing logics of sharing and exchange. The terraced gardens are like plantation lines and are an integral part of this structure. They are treated as behind the scenes of a theatre set. Interior and exterior are confused because of each of the three programs constituting the building can appropriate the number of frames they need. These changes over time will not alter the overall image of the built entity thanks to the legibility of invariants of the general volume : exoskeleton, patios, cores and circulations but allow a total programmatic adaptability.

credits

Architect: Clément Blanchet Architecture
Client: OPPIDIA
Nature of the operation: Competition
Realised in: 2014
Site: Toulouse, France
Program: Mixed use 28,000 m2
Budget: 45 Millions Euros

TEAM COMPOSITION

Architect: Paul Chemetov
Engineering: AUXITEC
Sustainability: OTCE
Acoustics: Orythie
Economist: Collin
Renders: Artefactory Lab