The Centre

❖ Description and facts

❖ Location, site plan, approach Paris France
❖ Facts

- stocked with almost 500,000 books It can easily
accommodate 2,000 readers
- It was a winner In 1969 at a contest made by the
of
Located at the centre of the city of paris , which gives the
Function :Culture and leisure
centre an economic and touristic importance as it houses
Location Paris, France
the Bibliothèque publique d'information by the Beaubourg
Completed 1971–1977 area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, surrounded by

Pompidou
President of france, Georges Pompidou set up to
design a multidisciplinary cultural Center that would Architect Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.
be a monumental structure that would also serve as a Architectural style Postmodern / high-tech
monument .
Access to the Center of
pompidou from the main
❖ Concept street side as well as an
The concept of this building is to have a multifunctional building Element,style, features ,and materials - Structural Art entrance for the bus station
that serves as a Public Library, Modern Art Museum, and Center for Elements and Style: users to have an easier
Music & Acoustic Research having an inside out style with steel As the Structure was externally
When mentioning the High tech architectural style one of the significant
exposed however in order to add a
access
frame skeleton in addition to a different mechanical, circulatory buildings that shaped this style is The centre of pompidou in which it
technocratic future touch of art
and structural systems which is color coded to add techno arctic evidently contrasts with the architecture of its contour, standing out for its
into it (graphic language of the
future Rogers and Piano also intended for the space to be flexible, height and for the architecture and its technology
Archigram group) the architect
with large spans unimpeded by columns with these features that characterized it :
- Exposed-pipes color coded the different functions The Walking distance from the bus
- Nuts and bolts of the cultural center.Green pipes station and the entrance to the library
for plumbing, blue ducts for from he main street side Site plan of the
extensive use of climate control and electrical wires
encased in yellow, and circulation beaubourg area where
factory-produce
d materials and elements and safety devices in red the centre of
components pompidou is located

Highly-flexible
- Interior on the exterior construction aka
structural honesty The way the structure was
designed gives the internal
The steel structure from structure enough flexibility
which the floors are
to be rearranged as the
Structural system
suspended is visible from
the outside, in which you structure is moved to the
can see everything external in addition to the
happening in the interior circulation system
and how the spaces are
divided just from looking
Structural system
❖ Relationship to nature at the facade as are the
giant external escalators,
Made out of a stable framework which consists
of steel grids in which the movable parts ( walls
- Multifunctional and floors ) can be inserted or repositioned +
Having the centre higher than all complex made out of 16,00 tons of cast and
the surrounding buildings gives As most of the high tech nd post modern prefabricated steel
shadow and prevents excessive architecture the architects intended to
daylight built half of the building as a
multifunctional structure that combines
the library, offices , design centers and Inner structure is constructed of steel frame which
exhibition while the other haf consists of a consists of 14 steel columns which support the
public square trusses and is secured by steel tie rods
The building is located in a way
where the sun strikes its back of
the building
❖ Circulation Vertical circulation
The floor are made of
composite concrete and
Horizontal circulation Which are the steel- plate cross The exterior structure is constructed of
using elevators
bracing steel frame which consists of 80 mm tie
Horizontal circulation corridors visible on rods at the end of the 7mm beams
the exterior The steel skeleton is separated by curtain
wall of mixed glazed and solid steel
panels as well as it allows to have enough
space for service routes Columns are made of cast thick wall
steel of 850 mm diameter in which
they are filled with water for fire
protection
Superstructure
Vertical
circulation
using elevator to Gerberette
the restaurant Is a pivot on an axle that have 2
spherical bearing which ensure
❖ Materials that the pivot doesn’t exert any
eccentric forces that cause
Hollow steel columns bending which are 9.6 ton each
Hollow steel/solid steel
welded trusses Steel Vertical circulation
gerberettes Composite The load acting on the roof and the floor substructure
Substructure
huge mechanical
decking Concrete are transferred are transferred through
escalator, known as the
basement/foundation beams through the large gerbette. Then
“caterpillar it’s transparent
the force is transferred into the columns
to provide a view to paris ”
to the ground
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