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Périphériques Architectes designed the new renovation for Jussieu Campus in Paris, completed in 2006. The Edouard Albert campus from the 60’s is run-down and widely considered a failure of Modernism.
Pilasters lifted up the buildings to allow public space on the pedestrian level, but ended up allowing wind to billow, graffiti to spread, and crime to injure. The simple grid layout swirled into a complicated labyrinth, and new asbestos materials for the time were unsafe. Périphériques tweeked the patio into two parts. The facades gained two skins of glass and metal, with ten types of perforated hole patterns. A folding orange ramp is introduced on the ground to add wayfinding and block winds. This greatly punctuates that ground area. The interesting metal facade are sometimes interrupted with colorful balconies. Criss-crossing peddestrian paths extend this colorful excitement inside. |
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