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Centre Georges Pompidou, ParisBy Renzo Piano , Richard Rogers , 19711977

Submitted By:ABHIJEET SHARMA

B-Arch(IV)061001

"Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long termsocial and ecological problems.

Richard Rogers


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The team's architectural intention

Building on the lines of an "evolving spatial diagram".Large degree of flexibility.Facades that would be "information surfaces.To maximise spatial movement and flow

Design Phase

1. A 3-level infrastructure housing the technicalfacilities and service areas,

2. A vast 7-level glass and steel superstructure,including a terrace and mezzanine f loor

The style

revealed structure exposed ducts machine-precision aesthetics

--- Greater care given on how they work.


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VENTILATION DUCTS

Exposed first Time

COLOUR-CODED DUCTS

Movement and flow Maximise functional movement and flow Inside out.--Free from circulation and servicing Attractive differences rather than soft-edged harmony. The building portrays its own datum . This public display of components---steel skeleton and diagonal

bracing as outcome of interior requirement. Unobstructed and adaptable interior volumes

The exterior zone of the structural frame is there to provide tensionforces outside the main volume's external columns, pulling thecantilevered horizontal members downward to reduce the bendingforces on the floor span.-- eliminates the need for supporting columnsacross the interior span of 157 feet (53.3 meters)mechanical and air-conditioning services are then placed in theexoskeletal frame

Air

Fluids

Electricity cables

Movement and flow (elevators)

Safety (fire extinguishers).


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Inside Pompidou

Public access to the museum areas is

not from the escalator tubes, as thebuilding exterior seems to suggest, butfrom doors located centrally at thelower edge of the plaza

Double-height interior forum connectsthe street level with the plaza level in asingle volume .

Plaza-level reception area also looksdown into a performance-levelbasement where a theater and meetingrooms are situated.

An interior escalator takes visitors to the streetlevel on the northwest corner of the building

Small lobby connects to elevators and theexterior escalator.-- visitors can already lookdown 46 feet-- In reality, the escalator serves onlythe mezzanine, level four, and level six

Horizontal circulation platforms occur insidethe frame most of them restricted to staffaccess and emergency exits.


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Critical Structural Issues Achieving column free space

In plan, the superstructure of the building consists of three zones.

1. The middle zone contains the 157-foot clear span across thebuilding interior between the main columns.

2. The outside two zones make up structural wall frames tosupport and cantilever.

Outer tension in the wall frame act to reduce the bendingmoments on the center of the span


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As a Building

Turning the building inside out was the most successfullyrealized architectural intention.

Static monumentalism is out; dynamic servicing andflexible floor space is in.

A symbol ofprocess and technology

A ceiling isn't required to shape a space, as many urbanspaces. Our vision is more oriented to the horizontal thanto the vertical.

Structural exhibitionism


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