Winning from competition :건축가:Morphosis,France

Morphosis Creates a Guiding Light for La Défense (건축가 모포시스 와 그의 그룹이 세계 건축가 10 guru 들이 경쟁한 설계공모전 (Paris 소재) 에서 우승하다!!!! December 13, 2006 (Photography © Unibail-Morphosis) Most Popular News Morphosis Creates a Guiding Light for La Défense ********* More news > On November 24, Morphosis, with Thom Mayne, was chosen in a competition to design the “Phare,” or Beacon Tower, in La Défense, an area of office towers west of Paris. Unibail, developer of the tower in partnership with EPAD, the public body for area development, calls the Morphosis project a symbol of “rupture” with the past. To be completed in 2012, it marks the first stage in the renaissance of La Défense. Located between the Grande Arche and the 1958 exhibition hall CNIT, Morphosis’s 68-story, $1.1 billion project seems to grow organically from the site. An undulating double skin on the southern elevation comprises a layer of glass over steel panels that have been perforated to appear transparent while limiting heat gain. The flatter northern facade is clear-glazed. At the base, a flap opens in the building’s skin like a slit skirt, exposing office floors around a 197-foot-high lobby the opens the building to the public and the adjacent mass transit station, creating what Mayne describes as a “vertical piazza.” The design features several eco-friendly characteristics in addition to southern shading. The tower rises 984 feet above the plaza to a ragged top edge of steel, constituting what the architects call a “wind farm,” which will provide some electricity to the fans in the building’s natural ventilation system. Also to be built in La Défense is the 50-story Generali by French architects Valode et Pistre, who have put giant wind turbines and an army of solar panels on top of their tower to help generate electricity and hot water. Jean Nouvel, one of the 10 architects in the competition that included Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster, had already designed a tower for the Phare—also known as Tour Signal—site in 1989; his cylindrical “Tour Sans Fin” was never built. 자세한 내용을 더 보고싶으시면, http://www.archrecord.construction.com 을 방문하셔서 해당 제목을 click 해 보십시오. 참고로 이내용은 Architectural Record 에서 발췌하였으며, AR (년 12회)은 MGH의 모회사인 McGraw-Hill에서 발행하는 전세계 건축뉴스를 다루는 진정한 또하나의 guru(내면적 측면의 진정한 leader) 입니다. Thank you.