| Amphitheatre and university restaurant |
(Marne- la- Vallée, France) |
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The building superimposes three very different programmatic elements: in the basement a parking lot and storage spaces, on the ground floor the amphitheatres, and on the first floor a dining space and the food-court shops.
The dark concrete plinth, respecting the rigorous alignment imposed by the university’s site plan, houses the amphitheatres, which appear to by carved out of a solid mass. The thick walls (up to 4 meters) constitute the building’s technical spaces. A thick roof including coloured glass panels sails over the glazed envelope of the restaurant. This roof structure is supported by a multitude of thin articulated columns, connecting the nodes of the metallic roof construction with the concrete columns of the basement. Two sculpted stairwells spiral down through a double skinned, 22 meter high cone which rises up through the building.
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