PARIS 7

Our Intentions: - Setting on block corner, with a simple form functioning on its own before the beginning of the second phase. - Taking part of the topography of the site , and making it into a natural slope - Use the ground floors, to create a continuity with the street, sculpt them into a hollow space where the slope would gently go over. - Create an urban transparency, that can be seen as other urban crossings, coming from the City’s history. As a result a mass is set over a slope. On its extremities it is anchored in the site by enhanced objects that help stretch visually the mass. A covered square gives access to the lobby, and continues its path towards the upper side of the neighborhood This give place to an urban balcony promenade giving over the street. THE Elevations Depending on the orientation there are two types of elevations. A white elevation on rue Baily giving the sloped “crossing” more visual importance, using transparent and semi opaque glass. The other will be made of pixilated drawings inspired by the reflections of the Seine river flowing nearby. It uses the numerical imaging repertoires as its stylistic writing, taking advantage of opal, semi reflecting, and silk screen printed types of glass. The south east elevation is in double aluminum skin creating a solar protection. It is partially perforated with the pixilated drawing motifs. The Footbridges are glossed stainless steel, and “pores” are in arched polycarbonate. The “coulee verte” a green flow under the building is used as a landscaped public site. Combining clear concrete, structured with longitudinal joints and wooden passageways and wooden stairs which contribute to a landscaped site. Giant and mini Bamboos will be used at the extent of the stairs. The lobby with partially colored glass will create light that will guide the eye and the path. The ceiling under the building expresses the same stylistic intentions then the elevations, in partially perforated reflecting aluminum, integrating acoustic correction and pixilated lighting. The poles are placed in musical and random way. The “coulée verte” would start from the upcoming square, crossing through the open fringe of the university, making a junction from the upper to the lower part of the district The laboratories are at the top of the building, the offices are in the mid floors, and the practical classrooms are on the bottom floors. The second floor can also be a street access for the second phase building