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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. RATP Bus Centre in Thiais, France by ECDM ArchitectesJune 1st, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ECDM Architectes The RATP wished to realize a new building intended for the bus drivers and the administrative staff of the existing center. Located in Thiais, it controls all the bus lines of the south and the east of Paris City. It’s an industrial context, characterised by a succession of boxes, at best basic.  Image Courtesy © Philippe RUAULT
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 Image Courtesy © Philippe RUAULT  Image Courtesy © Philippe RUAULT We reduced the site to a bus park, a vast monolithic concrete slab, uniformed territory composed of one sole material. 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 a dense building, inert, deaf, and enigmatic as “the hull of a Russian submarine in the waters of Murmansk”.  Image Courtesy © Benoît FOUGEIROL  Image Courtesy © Benoît FOUGEIROL The texture games are facilitated by the flexibility of the material and its ability to be molded with precision. The quality of finish and rigor of Ductal ® contribute to ensuring this concrete skin, accurate, continuous, perfect connections. The skin: 3 cm thick displays a single texture of dots in relief like a game of \”LEGO\”. The “windows” are cut with a cutter blade: surgical incisions generating volumes in negative which reveal colored mirrors under the thin crust of concrete. 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.  Image Courtesy © Benoît FOUGEIROL  Image Courtesy © Benoît FOUGEIROL  Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes  Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes
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