Article source: Levitt Bernstein and TKMT architectes
Levitt Bernstein and TKMT architectes designed a new visitor centre as part of the Institut Laue-Langevin campus in Grenoble, a pan-European initiative providing neutrons to visiting researchers for experiments and analysis at the molecular level. The new building will give access to the institute’s array of state-of-the-art equipment and provide scientists with a base for their work. Also included are new conference facilities, bookable lab space and healthcare support. Inspired by the nearby neutron accelerator, the design of the building takes its cues from specific scientific methods, while also creating highly functional, multipurpose spaces.
In late 2011, we returned to Grenoble, a place of environmental experimentation with a previous project that made its mark on the ZAC de Bonne: the “Coming Out”.
This time, another challenge is tackled, the one of height – with the same desire to push the limits of ’experimentation with energy performance even further. In an attempt to resolve the issue of thermal bridges once and for all, balconies had to be eliminated.
Location: Lot CI1, secteur Cambridge ZAC Presqu’île, 38000 Grenoble, France
Photography: Luc Boegly and Sergio Grazia
Client: Cogedim
Project Management: Maison Édouard François, architect designer Aktis, architect of local operations Nicolas ingénieries, utilities and environment CTG, structure Verdier, terraces structure Editec, economics Socotec, inspection office, Health and Safety coordinator Kaema, geotechnics Sintegra, roads and utility services / external works
Cost:
€5.3m excl. VAT
€1,940 excl VAT / m² SHAB
Surface area Net floor area: 4,731 m² (5,174 y²) Inhabitable surface area: 2,730 m² (2,985 y²) – Separate terrace areas: 1,073 m² (1,173 y²)
There was a building slated for construction on the new Avenue de la Presqu’île de Grenoble, in the “Cambridge” ZAC (joint urban development zone).
The client, a property developer with demanding standards, knows its clientele well.
Thus, most of the project’s features were already determined in the program: a recessed top floor flanked by two duplexes, a platform pierced with immense glazed shop windows, large balconies and beautiful openings on the façade to allow sunshine and the view to penetrate the interior.
With this litany of invariable promotional imperatives, the overall effect was slowly becoming a “predictable” project, altogether rather banal. In addition, the zone’s seismicity imposed the simplification of its volume: Amen.
Location: Lot Ck1, secteur Cambridge ZAC Presqu’île, 38000 Grenoble
Photography: Renaud Chaignet
Project Management: Maison Édouard François, design architect Aktis, architect of local operation Ingenergie, fluids and environment Matte, Structure Diptyque, economics Socotec, inspection office Batic, Health and Safety coordinator Kaema, geotechnics Serra, roads and utility services / external works
Electronic music is a new subject for architecture. Most of the times electro nights take place in spaces that were not specially designed for them: clubs or night clubs, warehouses, fields, stadiums… For the Grenoble project, the aim was to invent a specific architectural system for a new type of spectacle and relationship with the public, whilst allowing concerts with a more traditional configuration.
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