Tour In Centre Pompidou-Metz By Shigeru Ban Architects In METZ, FRANCE

Tour In Centre Pompidou-Metz / Shigeru Ban Architects In METZ, FRANCE
Text description provided by the architects. My first thoughts when beginning the design were two recent phenomena concerning art museums throughout the world today. The first trend, which has become widely known as the “Bilbao Effect”, was born from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank O. Gehry and completed in 1998. The strategy was to create sculptural architecture in an internationally unknown city to draw tourism, and it was ultimately a success. But there is an opinion that this kind of architecture spoils its functionality by disregarding the concerns of artists and staff, to produce a personal monument resulting in poor conditions for displaying and viewing art.

As an example at the other extreme, there is a method of renovating old industrial architecture to produce an optimal space for the exhibition of works, however neutral the architecture may be. The Tate Modern in London, and the Dia:Beacon completed in 2003 in upstate New York for the Dia Art Foundation are such successful examples. Rather than choosing either extreme, I thought to create a design concept which considered the ease of displaying and viewing art, while architecturally leaving a deep impression with visitors.

In order to create functional spaces, I articulated the program into simple volumes with a clear circulation amongst them. They were arranged three-dimensionally, in order to simplify their functional interrelationship.

The general galleries with varying requirements for lengths were based on a 15m wide module to create three simple square tubes with long, 90m deep rectangular volumes inside. The three tubes are stacked vertically and arranged around a hexagonal steel frame tower which contains the stairs and elevators. The space created beneath the tiered ceilings of the three shifted Gallery Tubes make up the Grand Nef Gallery.

Architects: Shigeru Ban Architects
Area:
11330 m²
Year:
2010
Photographs:
Didier Boy De La Tour
Manufacturers: Alucobond
Acoustics: Commins Acoustics workshop, Daniel Commins
General Contractor: Demathieu & Bard, Metz
Lighting: L’Observatoire 1, Icon, Geroges Berne, Anthony Perrot, Remy Cimadevilla, Akari-Lisa Ishii
MEP: Ove Arup & Partners, GEC Ingénierie, Philippe Vivier, René Andrian, Emmanuelle Danisi, Florence Collier, James Whelan, Chris Moore
Competition Architects: Shigeru Ban Architects, Jean de Gastines Architectes, Gumuchdjian Architects, Jean de Gastines, Toshi Kubota, Hiroshi Maeda, Shigeru Ban, Nobutaka Hiraga, Mamiko Ishida, Asako Kimura, Anne Scheou
Design, Site Administration: Shigeru Ban Architects, Jean de Gastines Architectes, Shigeru Ban, Gerardo Perez, Marc Ferrand, Jacques Marie, Fayçal Tiaïba, Elsa Neufville, Vincent Laplante, Alessandro Boldrini, Hiromi Okada, Jeong Hoon Lee, Jae Whan Shin, Jonathan Thornhill, Rahim Danto Barry
Competition Structure Consultant: Cecil Balmond, Ove Arup & Partners
Design, Site Administration Structure Consultant: TERRELL, Zbigniew Koszut, Laurence Dallot, Paul Nuttall, Sophie Le Bourva, Ben Lewis, David Gration, Andrew Lawrence, Holger Falter, Mathieu Jacques de Dixmude, James McLean, Ove Arup & Partners
Structure For The Timber Roof:Waldstat, Hermann Blumer
Quantity Surveyor: J.P Tohier & Associés, Paris – Eric Le Dreo, Gerald Lamory
Security Consultant:Cabinet Casso & Cie, Michel Walkowiak
Timber Roof: Holzbau Amann, Weilheim-Bannholz, Döbele Tobias, Martin Pfundt, Fredy Oberle, Klaus Tröndle, Peter Amann
Timber Roof Structural Analysis:SJB, Franz Tshuemperlin, Samuel Keller
Roof Membrane: Koffi Alate, Peter Wright, Massimo Maffeis, Thomas Winkler, Taiyo Europe
Site Area:12 000 m²
Construction Cost: 51M€
City: Metz
Country: France

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