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“A block of sky carrying a piece of Mediterranean soil”: this is how Michel Rémon describes the building he designed for the Airbus Helicopters Research and Development Center.
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Among the “white” buildings on the surrounding industrial site – all different in their envelopes of metal or concrete – the Airbus monolith shines like a unique nugget, radiant by its simplicity, rigor and purity.
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This immaculately white parallelepiped serves three main goals: to give a prestigious identity to this new brand base; to offer the teams modern, collaborative and integrated working conditions; and to upgrade the site’s image by landscaping the outdoor areas for the well-being of company personnel.
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This final goal is met well beyond specifications: on the east side of the building, a green carpet of pines and heath rooted in three meters of earth rises from the ground to climb up to the northeast corner of the site.
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A tribute to the incredible vertical ascension of a helicopter? Without doubt, just like the mirror of the glass façades reaching into the sky toward these magical, humming insects.
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Made of self-cleaning silk-screened glass, these façades protect the building from the heat of the sun by breathable double glazing with integrated venetian blinds.
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On the various floors, the natural light is soft and omnipresent, all the way to the central core dedicated to social spaces and large stairways.
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“At the center of a landscape which has been carefully planted by landscape architect Laure Planchais, the building brilliantly manifests the R&D activity that is both secret and emblematic.” Source by Michel Rémon & Associés.
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- Location: Marignane, France
- Architects: Michel Rémon & Associés
- Leading architect: Michel Rémon
- Project Manager: Rémi Bellec
- Lead contractor: Bouygues Bâtiment Sud Est
- Space planner: DEGW
- Engineering: WSP France
- Facades: Roux Ingénierie Structures
- BET BREEAM and thermal: EODD
- Acoustics: AVLS
- BIM: Studies and worksite
- Client: Airbus Helicopters
- Net floor area: 18, 400 m2
- Year: 2016
- Photographs: Sergio Grazia, Courtesy of Michel Rémon & Associés
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