Six architects shortlisted for the Palaiseau radar station on the Paris-Saclay plateau
Of the fourteen submissions received, the jury has selected six, each a team pairing an architect with a contractor. The winner will be announced in December this year. The finalists are:
- Rudy Ricciotti with GTM Bâtiment
- DVA-DVVD with Chantiers Modernes construction
- Barthélémy-Grino Architectes with Rabot Dutilleul construction
- Architecture et ouvrages d’art A.O.A. with Razel-Bec
- Explorations architecture with Demathieu Bard
- C&E and UBIK with Léon Grosse
The need for this facility stems from an aviation constraint requiring that no building interfere with the radar signal at a height of 174 m NGF (French national datum) within a 5 km radius. Forthcoming developments on the Paris-Saclay plateau will mean the existing radar can no longer meet this standard. A new air traffic radar will therefore be built, taller than the current one. Its delivery will be coordinated with that of the new buildings, meaning completion in the first half of 2016.
The new radar station will stand along the boulevard des Maréchaux, to the north-east of the Stade Yves du Manoir, at the entrance to the École polytechnique district.
- Competition: December 2013
- Completion date: first half of 2016