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Project • By Nikken Sekkei Ltd • Research Facilities
SUBARU Innovation Hub
Toward activities centered on “things”This is a new research and development facility of automaker SUBARU's main plant. SUBARU is a pioneer of technologies and systems known to everyone today, and its unique manufacturing approach and obsessive attention to detail have cultivated a loyal fan base. However, recent increases in workloads have led to organizational and operational “silos,” creating challenges with respect to sharing tacit knowledge and fostering a more collaborative mindset.
Ote Camera
Koji Horiuchi［Shin Shashin Kobo］
Additionally, designers had limited opportunities to interact with actual “things” or users, making it difficult to get external information and inspiration.Early in... More
Project • By MICHEL RÉMON & ASSOCIÉS • Research Facilities
CENTER OF NANOSCIENCES AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES
The game of scales
The compactness, the extreme purity of the sketch made by the architect respond to the cramped nature of the building space. In tribute to research on the infinitely small, the beauty of its simple line deliberately erases the scale of the body but reveals a rigorously framed internal structure. The complexity and thoroughness of the work carried out inside is thus sheltered in a building with a deliberately serene architecture, with obvious functionality.
An intangible object simulating weightlessness, this site is preparing to weigh heavily in the development of the Saclay plateau.
Sergio Grazia
With its clean room of 3,000 m² of useful surface - soon to be one of the largest in France - the grouping of tec... More