Le Nuage (French for “cloud”), designed by Philippe Starck, is a fitness and wellness complex in Montpellier, France. It the first inflatable private building in Europe and it has been poetically designed to resemble its nebulous epithet. For this purpose, Starck used a polymer known as ETFE and created a transparent membrane that envelopes around the building facade.
Geoplast contributed to this project by providing 4500 m² of Skydome that ensured the lightness of the structure itself. Skydome is a reusable waffle slab formwork that allowed the realization of bidirectional waffle slabs with large spans while reducing the use of concrete and decreasing the self-weight of the building.
The use of Skydome elements resulted in a smooth and pleasing ceiling, left exposed by the design. The shape of the domes also allowed to reduce the sound waves, improving the acoustics of the whole structure.
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Skydome used for construction of lightened slabs in Le Nuage, Montpellier
Bidirectional slabs for directional buildings
