Ile-de-France Photovoltaic Institute, Palaiseau

Palaiseau

The IPVF (Ile-de-France Photovoltaic Institute) project, a single, independent volume, fits into a rigorous urban and landscaped composition. Its careful, qualitative spatial organisation is part of enhancing the image of the Paris–Saclay science and technology campus.

As a result of a demanding brief, the project is organised into a compact building. Nonetheless, the single volume accommodates a duality between the high-tech area that houses the cleanrooms, arranged around two services shafts, and the offices around an atrium.The envelope of the IPVF building forms a luminous shell that hints at internal activity. Light filters into the building via the central atrium space, a convivial heart to the building that marks the boundary between laboratories and offices. Openings are made in the facade following a grid based on horizontal and vertical meeting points, forming a composition reminiscent of abstract geometrical painting ‘Le Rythme du Millimètre’ by French artist Aurélie Nemours.

Client

Ile-de-France Photovoltaic Institute

Montant HT des travaux

24,3 M€ valeur 2014

Surface

7 700 m² SP

Mission

Conception-Réalisation

Phase

Chantier

Concours

2014

Livraison

2017

Programme

Construction d’un bâtiment de recherche,
laboratoires (salles blanches), bureaux, amphithéâtre
(100pl), parking intégré (60pl)

Projet lauréat en cours

Chantier

Thème

technicité, intégration urbaine

Matériaux

Verre et béton poli

Architecte mandataire

Pargade

BET TCE

Jacobs

Économiste

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