Code : graphic design
Project : facade and roof
Type : public order
Location : Marseille
Date : 2013
Client : Vinci
Collaborator : Etienne Vallet
Engineering : L-ring
Photo : Lisa Ricciotti - Olivier Amsellem - Joran Briand
Architect : Rudy Ricciotti and R. Carta
Description : The studio embarks on its first collaborative project with Architect Rudy Ricciotti for original façade designs made from high-performance concrete. The agency developed a system of parametric molds composed of complex and unique patterns while maintaining select fixed connection points for reversibility and interchangeability. This is a highly refined and uncommon design practice in which a monolithic façade has different configurations in order to avoid repetitious graphics.
The Architect imagined a facade that would elude a landscape of “moon and dust”. Process is a fundamental element of the design as the concrete is poured into eight different molds creating a cellular patterned mantilla to serve as the exterior facade.