Programme:
The „Centre International du Design” is a new institution for communication, research and education in design. The project is situated on the historic site of the National Arms Manufacture in St. Etienne.
It involves the renovation of several historic buildings, as well as the integration of a new building the ‘platine’ (200 x32 m), an observation tower (31m high), two gardens and the Place d’Armes, a public esplanade.
The ‘platine’ is an interclimatic laboratory whose adaptive skin is enveloping several programs as an exhibition spaces, an auditorium, the ‘agora’, a greenhouse and a media- and material library. It is reacting on their different needs in terms of light and climate. It is also an expression of the different activities in the Cité du Design.
Project
status: International
competition, 1st prize, opening 1st october 2009
Site:
Saint-Etienne, Loire, France
Client:
Saint-Etienne Metropole
Team:
Architects: LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi, Berlin/Paris with:
Philip König, Stefan Jeske (Project Managers),
Jan-Oliver Kunze, Judith Stichtenoth, Francois Maisonnasse, Muriel Poncet, Marielle Gilibert, Heiko Walth;
Assitants to the execution of construction: Benjamin Wallerand, Lyon,
Maurice Guitton, Lyon;
Local architect: Dominique Berger,
Cabinet Berger, Saint-Étienne; Structure : Werner
Sobek + Thomas Winterstetter, WSI, Stuttgart/New York;
Engineering: Fréderique Binvignat + Christian Desquiens, BETOM Ingénierie, Corbas; Climate engineering: Matthias Schuler + Arnaud Billard, Transsolar, Stuttgart/New York; Economy: Pierre Dumond + Alain Baland, Cyprium, Lyon; Acoustics: Richard Denayrou + Emily Morin, Altia Acoustique, Paris; Scenography: Gérard Fleury , Architecture & Technique, Paris; Lighting: Andy Sedgwick + Jeff Shaw, Ove Arup, London; Landscape architecture: Clément Willemin + Frank Poirier, BASE, Paris; Communication design: Andreas Schneider, IIDj, Tokyo; Philosophy: Joseph Hanimann, Paris
Surface net:
21 140m²
Dates:
competition march to june 2004, realisation 2006 to 2009
Costs: 41,5
Mio €