Actuarchi Week #02
Every Sunday, Actuarchi Week brings you the week's architecture news. This short edition of Actuarchi aims to give you the essentials and the chance to explore each subject further through suggested links, while we wait for the launch of Projet A, the new actuarchi.
- COMPETITION - Brenac+Gonzalez & Associés wins the new building for the Centre de Physique Matière et Rayonnement at the Université Paris-Sud
The practice Brenac+Gonzalez & Associés has won the competition run by the Université Paris-Sud. Five teams made it to the final selection stage: Baumschlager-Eberle, Badia-Berger, Groupe 6, Zündel Cristea and Brenac+Gonzalez & Associés. The 7,014 m² project brings together three research units (FAST, LPMTS and IPa), organised around two courtyards: one enclosed, for the FAST laboratories, the other open and landscaped as a garden. Work is scheduled to start in April 2016, with completion in April 2018. A fuller description of the project is available on the Paris-Saclay website.
- BOOK - Architectures à Marseille 1900-2013
From the Palais de l'Automobile to the MuCEM by way of the Cité Radieuse, this book surveys more than three hundred buildings erected since 1900. The architect Thierry Durousseau, who led the publication, takes on the prejudices about the city's urban fabric and architecture head-on. Taking readers on a walk through the city, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, the book aims to make us look again at buildings that have become invisible in everyday life. Published by the MAV PACA at a price of €22, it is on sale at the MAV, in specialist bookshops and on Amazon.
- VIDEO - Pavilion for the Festival des Architectures Vives in La Grande-Motte
NAS Architecture has completed the pavilion for the FAV in La Grande-Motte. The installation features a reflective screen made up of many small stainless-steel plates hung along metal rails. The lightness of the structure makes the wind the conductor, setting the reflections to the rhythm of the waves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnSeAzdEHks
