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Overseas
Paris-Saclay University Campus
Public condenser
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Architect: Muoto Architects, Paris
he project is a public facility, and basketball games. The different areas
situated on the new campus of Paris- are linked by an open staircase that allows
TSaclay. The building hosts a mix of independent accesses. The building takes
activities including indoor and outdoor the form of an urban shelf, a vertical public
sports facilities, a restaurant, cafeteria, and space, accessible to all campus visitors,
various public spaces: a pedestrian square, day or night.
street terraces, park areas for deliveries, It is a shared facility, encouraging the
bikes and cars. The building is organized encounter of various populations living
vertically with its different activities close to one another, but rarely meeting.
superimposed on one another, using the The Restaurant, cafeteria and sports
roof as a panoramic playground for football activities are made accessible to students,
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