Site for Contemporary Creation, Phase 2, Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France · 2012
Photo · Philippe Ruault
This project photo demonstrates the adaptive reuse of a large industrial hall by Lacaton & Vassal, featuring a raw concrete mezzanine, exposed steel trusses, and diffused fabric skylight shading to create a flexible, monumental exhibition space.
- What we like about this project
- The lightweight white fabric sheets draped beneath the glass roof soften the harsh industrial steel structure.
Materials
- concrete
- steel-truss
- fabric-shading
- glass
- plaster
Visual identifiers
- concrete-mezzanine
- steel-truss-roof
- fabric-ceiling-shades
- industrial-adaptive-reuse
- exhibition-hall
Style tags
- brutalist
- industrial
- minimalist
- adaptive-reuse
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- industrial-chic
- raw-concrete
- skylight
- cultural-space
- mezzanine
- public-interior
- Geometry
- A wide, symmetrical concrete bridge or mezzanine overlook frames a central lower-level opening, set within a vast, industrial-scaled hall with a pitched steel truss roof.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete floor plates and bridge structures inserted within a historic steel-framed industrial envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental, double-height industrial volume with a wide pedestrian bridge designed to accommodate large crowds.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight filtered through overhead white fabric sails, casting soft shadows across the concrete surfaces and the crowd.
- Atmosphere
- Lively and airy, combining the raw weight of concrete with the light, diffused glow of the overhead fabric sails.
- Environmental context
- An expansive, raw industrial interior adapted for public exhibition and cultural use.
- Spatial experience
- The visitor emerges onto a wide concrete platform overlooking a lower level, while looking across to a broad exhibition wall under a high, fabric-shaded skylight ceiling.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical foreground concrete walls frame a central void, leading the eye to the horizontal band of the exhibition wall and the repeating rhythm of the overhead steel trusses.
- Style reading
- Industrial brutalism with minimalist adaptive interventions
- Program
- Art gallery or cultural exhibition center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, steel-truss, fabric-shading, glass, plaster
- Visual identifiers
- concrete-mezzanine, steel-truss-roof, fabric-ceiling-shades, industrial-adaptive-reuse, exhibition-hall
- Style tags
- brutalist, industrial, minimalist, adaptive-reuse
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, industrial-chic, raw-concrete, skylight, cultural-space, mezzanine, public-interior
- Geometry
- A wide, symmetrical concrete bridge or mezzanine overlook frames a central lower-level opening, set within a vast, industrial-scaled hall with a pitched steel truss roof.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete floor plates and bridge structures inserted within a historic steel-framed industrial envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental, double-height industrial volume with a wide pedestrian bridge designed to accommodate large crowds.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight filtered through overhead white fabric sails, casting soft shadows across the concrete surfaces and the crowd.
- Atmosphere
- Lively and airy, combining the raw weight of concrete with the light, diffused glow of the overhead fabric sails.
- Environmental context
- An expansive, raw industrial interior adapted for public exhibition and cultural use.
- Spatial experience
- The visitor emerges onto a wide concrete platform overlooking a lower level, while looking across to a broad exhibition wall under a high, fabric-shaded skylight ceiling.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical foreground concrete walls frame a central void, leading the eye to the horizontal band of the exhibition wall and the repeating rhythm of the overhead steel trusses.
- Style reading
- Industrial brutalism with minimalist adaptive interventions
- Program
- Art gallery or cultural exhibition center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture