Japanese architect Shigeru Ban explains how his egg-shaped music auditorium acts as a western gateway to Paris within the final instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons collection produced in collaboration with Holcim.
The video options La Seine Musicale, a music advanced that homes a big multipurpose live performance corridor and a smaller auditorium.
The musical facility is positioned on the Ile Seguin island close to Paris’s western suburbs, occupying a 3rd of French architect Jean Nouvel’s mixed-use masterplan of the island.
Talking to Dezeen in an unique video filmed by Dezeen on the architect’s Paris workplace, Ban defined that the advanced was designed as a monument to indicate a western gate into Paris.
“The live performance corridor has a particular character,” Ban mentioned. “The consumer was searching for a symbolic monument. My technique is making a logo with some that means and performance.”
The constructing includes three services: a live performance auditorium for classical music, a 6,000-seat multi-purpose corridor and a music college for youngsters.
The music corridor takes the type of an ovoid auditorium, which is encased in a latticed laminated-timber body with glass.
The auditorium is sheltered by a sail-shaped wall of photo voltaic panels, which transfer to comply with the trail of the solar to shade the inside from direct daylight all through the day.
“It appears like a concrete ship with a glass egg on prime with a sail,” Ban mentioned. “The sail is an enormous triangular form with a photo voltaic panel, which is slowly transferring.”
The outside of the live performance corridor options specifically made mosaic tiles that change color in response to whether or not they’re uncovered to direct daylight.
The location was initially house to a producing plant operated by automobile model Renault. When the plant closed in 1992, the manufacturing unit was left empty, and was later demolished.
Plans to rejuvenate the world have been firsts drawn up in 2009 by Nouvel.
In step with Nouvel’s masterplan, a concrete wall envelops the constructing’s perimeter as a nod to the commercial aesthetic of the previous manufacturing unit.
“I attempted to make use of timber as a lot as attainable for the constructing’s construction,” Ban mentioned. “Nevertheless, concrete was the primary materials for the facade. Concrete is such an exquisite materials, which can’t be changed by the rest.”
“Every materials has its personal traits. My concept is to reap the benefits of the completely different traits of every materials,” he continued.
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect received a world competitors held in 2013 to design the Ile Seguin web site.
La Seine Musicale was the primary cultural venue to be accomplished on the island, opening its doorways in April 2017. Additional plans are underway so as to add an artwork centre, inns and workplace areas to the island.
Concrete Icons is a six-part video collection created in partnership with constructing supplies firm Holcim, which profiles essentially the most placing up to date concrete buildings by the world’s main architects.
Earlier instalments within the collection deal with MAD’s sinuous Cloudscape library in Haikou, China, in addition to The Sq., a higher-education studying centre in Switzerland designed by Sou Fujimoto.
Final week’s instalment focussed on the Striatus bridge, a freestanding 3D-printed concrete footbridge designed to display how 3D printing methods can be utilized to construct with much less materials.
Further footage courtesy of La Seine Musicale, by Arthur Maneint, Hensli Sage and Noesys Prod.
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