Marc Mimram completes Strasbourg School of Architecture
14/04/2014.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture. [Strasbourg] France
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A translucent skin of wrinkled aluminium covers the walls of this new building design for the Strasbourg campus, France, of architecture school.
The new building was entitled "La Fabrique" is the first phase and the remodelation, an existing building next door, known as "Le Garage", both were designed by French architect Marc Mimram. A very interesting result. Congratulations!!
The new building was entitled "La Fabrique" is the first phase and the remodelation, an existing building next door, known as "Le Garage", both were designed by French architect Marc Mimram. A very interesting result. Congratulations!!
Interior view. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
View of the facade opaque from outside. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
Interior view. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
Night outside view. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
Night outside view. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
View of the facade opaque from outside. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
View of the facade opaque from outside. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram. Photography by Julien Lanoo.
Site plan. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Groun floor and lower floor plan. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Second and Third floor plan. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Fourth and fifth floor plan. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Sixth and Roof floor plan. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Basement floor plan. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Diagram. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Structure diagram. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
Detail. La Fabrique by Marc Mimram.
The 4500 square metre of the first building, "La Fabrique", completed now, was designed to reference the site's industrial past and also create a relationship with the city's existing nineteenth-century architecture.
"Le projet pour la nouvelle Ecole d’Architecture est un projet en ville. Cette disposition somme toute assez rare pour les écoles d’architecture, permet d’installer un dialogue particulier entre ville et enseignement de l’architecture, entre urbanité et pédagogie." / "The central location presented a rare opportunity for an architecture school to engage in a dialogue between the city and the study of architecture,"
Marc Mimram.
A new bridge will link the two buildings on the first and second floors. La Fabrique also accommodates a pair of auditoriums, which occupy the basement.
Description project by Marc Mimram
Marc Mimram, the Paris-based architecture and engineering practice, has completed the first phase of the Strasbourg School of Architecture (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg).
Located in the heart of the city, La Fabrique (The Factory) is a new 4,500m² building that will be complemented by the refurbishment of the adjoining building, Le Garage, to be completed in December 2014.
The teaching spaces of La Fabrique are projected into the streetscape, encouraging students to engage with the building's context and allowing the city to permeate the ribbed veil of the facade.
The transparent plinth gives the feeling that a gravitational force has pulled the building upwards leaving it to rest on stiletto heels, allowing the city in underneath.
The building's massing consists of two-storey blocks stacked on top of each other. The lower block cantilevers over the transparent, ground floor plinth, while the uppermost block steps back, providing the maximum volume within the constraints set by the planning regulations.
The blocks are unified by the common envelope, a semi-transparent aluminium skin that cloaks the glazed boxes.
A metal curtain glides between large bay windows to frame views across the city, its homes and its cathedral. By day, the building reflects the changing light as the sun moves around the facade; by night, inside and outside are reversed, revealing the building’s skeleton and morphing between transparent and opaque.
The new school was above all designed as a tool for its students, a means to experience the study of architecture and to provide shared spaces in which to interact, collaborate and discover.
The building's name, La Fabrique, refers to the history of the site but also echoes the study of architecture: the construction of knowledge and the knowledge of construction.
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Architects
Marc Mimram.
Project team
Fabien Mauduit, Pamela Durasamy, Francis Jacquiod, Sergio Pauletto, Sylvia Singer Bayrle, Nicolas Videgrain.
Collaborators
Facilities, structure and budget.- Marc Mimram Ingeniería SA and collaborators: Arnaud Delugeard Michele Bonera, Jean Claude Proust, Philippe Da Silva. Fluids facilities.- ALTO Ingenier SA. Acoustics.- Peutz & Associés.
Owner
OPPIC. Opérateur du patrimoine et des projets immobiliers de la Culture.
Area
8,900 m².
New building "La Fabrique".- 4,500 m².
Remodeling building "La Garage".- 4,400 m².
New building "La Fabrique".- 4,500 m².
Remodeling building "La Garage".- 4,400 m².
Dates
2008 - 2014.
Location
6-8, Boulevard Wilson, Strasbourg, France.
Budget
€ 13.4 mill.
Photography
Julien Lanoo.
MARC MIMRAM
Marc Mimram was born in Paris in 1955. He has a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and graduated as an engineer from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He is a DPLG architect and holds a Master’s in Civil Engineering from the University of Berkeley in California in addition to a post-graduate degree in Philosophy. He founded his own consultancy and architecture-engineering firm in 1981 and has completed a good many civil engineering structures and architectural projects in France and abroad. Marc Mimram has taught in the École des Ponts et Chaussées, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Princeton University, USA. Appointed Professeur des Écoles d’Architecture and is currently teaching at the École d’Architecture de Marne-la-Vallée.
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