Thiais, Paris | Thiais Bus Centre | Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Architects

[lllARKlll]

http-~~-//www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/1726_6_1000%20ecdm%20Thiais%208.jpghttp-~~-//www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/1726_3_1000%20ecdm%20Thiais%203.jpghttp-~~-//www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/1726_2_1000%20ecdm%20Thiais%202.jpg

ECDN architects' RATP Bus Centre in Thiais

The building starts with the deformation of the ground, the distortion of the existing concrete slab, and continues it with an apparently similar material Ductal ®, still concrete but a dazzling sheet of concrete, which responds to very sophisticated demands: informality of the structure, constant evolution of the plans, dematerialization, precision, density, homogeneity of aspect according to the mould designed. It ensures a continuity of the ground from the road, to the skin of the façades, the suspended ceilings and the terrace rooftop without any rupture.
Combined with the structural qualities of the material, the building has neither a beginning nor an end. It is a continuity of a surface of which we can, depending on what you aim at, not control the limits. It is an inflection of a slab which spreads on the whole site.
The building appears like a monolith with rounded edges, polished somehow. Characterized by a dense square plan (35m x 35m) developed on 2 levels, it presents itself as the continuity of the banal coating of the roads, like a piece stamped from distorting the existing concrete surface of the Bus Center. The Ductal ® is used here as a morphing to cover the carcass of a composite program. The result is a dense building, inert, deaf, and enigmatic as “the hull of a Russian submarine in the waters of Murmansk”.
The concrete hull is cut out with a cutter putting at sharp, revealing cavities of reflective and coloured glass under the concrete crust. Treated with silver mirror dots, chromatics of the glass products are inspired by the tinted curtain wall frontages of the office buildings which border the main road.

Fonte: WorldArchitectureNews

[JVS]

Um projecto diferente.

http-~~-//architecture.myninjaplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ecdm-ratp-3.jpg

http-~~-//architecture.myninjaplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ecdm-ratp-5.jpg

Uma forma curiosa do uso da cor.

http-~~-//architecture.myninjaplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ecdm-ratp-9.jpg

Como funciona o interior.

http-~~-//architecture.myninjaplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ecdm-ratp-12.jpg

http-~~-//architecture.myninjaplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ecdm-ratp-8.jpg

Pormenor.

How do you address an industrial site - surrounded by simple box-like buildings, within a sea of asphalt, and meant to function as a depot for 300 buses? That was the question posed by the RATP [Régie autonome des transports parisiens - ‘autonomous control of Parisian transport’] in regards to a much-needed new bus center in Thiais, a small suburb in southern Paris [about 7 miles from the center of the city].

Enter Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Architects [ECDM], a Parisian firm founded in 1988, who’s answer seems almost ridiculous in its simplicity: just make a bus park - a ‘vast monolithic concrete slab, uniformed territory composed of one sole material’.

With the need for a building to house administrative offices, and meet any of the needs that the 800+ bus drivers may have, a bus center emerges on the site to function as a hub for this portion of the transit system. The design plays on the expansive asphalt groundplane, creating a building that doesn’t rise from the pavement, but within it - as if the center was covered over when the parking lot was paved.

The material used in the construction - Ductal® - is a high performance concrete, who’s particular qualities allowed for smooth, curving edges that give the building the appearance of having no beginning or end [it gives me the impression that on a hot summer day the building would actually become malleable at the edges, like so much asphalt].

The 2 storey building is a simple 35 by 35 meter square, meant to appear as banal as the surrounding asphalt and concrete - ‘like a piece stamped from distorting the existing concrete surface of the Bus Center’. The plan is therefore a simple series of rooms surrounding a main corridor, with a central courtyard, which are intended to be adaptable to changing programmatic needs in the buildings future.

in MNP

Link do Arquitecto