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company employees, teachers, and Data sheet
researchers. It aims at creating a meeting
point for everyone by mixing activities that
are usually separate. Program
The building has been conceived as a Restaurant, cafeteria, indoor and outdoor sports facilities and
minimal structure, using rough materials, various public spaces: a pedestrian square, street terraces, park
robust and long lasting techniques. areas for deliveries, bikes and cars
Technology is used minimally to provide Client
a place that will last in time, without need Etablissement Public dAménagement Paris Saclay (EPAPS)
for complicated maintenance.
In response to the low construction Area
budget, detailing has been kept to a 4097 sq m
minimum. This economical approach has Budget
allowed for the inclusion of a generous 6.500.000
public square in the construction price,
ensuring a planted pedestrian connection Architect
with the existing academic buildings next Muoto
to the site. The vertical configuration of the Completion
building provides a minimal footprint. 2016

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