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Paris, France
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Silos 13
Paris, France
Project Featured on Nov 25, 2014
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
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"Ever since the high-tech architects sneaked functionalism off the business park and factory floor and transformed it into high-end design for apartments and galleries, the genre has been left wanting, preferring pragmatic and cost-effective banality over triumphal celebration. But the Silos 13 plant is different," says Wallpaper magazine.
The challenge for the architects was to insert the building in the new city plan on the edge of Paris, 16 feet away from the ring road and to imagine a striking design for a modern cement facility. They were able to make the design quite bold and simple. Although the plan uses common technical language and fittings, the building has been transformed into a unique work space dedicated to the material it contains: the silos, the stair tour, the offices, the test center, or the ground are all made from concrete.
The material reveals much of its plastic potential and allows the project to come alive, as a sort of abstraction of bodies rising from the ground and attracting each other into one unique place.
Pictures: Stéphane Chalmeau and Daniel Moulinet
The challenge for the architects was to insert the building in the new city plan on the edge of Paris, 16 feet away from the ring road and to imagine a striking design for a modern cement facility. They were able to make the design quite bold and simple. Although the plan uses common technical language and fittings, the building has been transformed into a unique work space dedicated to the material it contains: the silos, the stair tour, the offices, the test center, or the ground are all made from concrete.
The material reveals much of its plastic potential and allows the project to come alive, as a sort of abstraction of bodies rising from the ground and attracting each other into one unique place.
Pictures: Stéphane Chalmeau and Daniel Moulinet
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