In Progress: Quimper Cornouaille Exhibition Center / Philippe Brulé Architectes

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• Architects

  Philippe Brulé Architectes

• Location

  32 Rue de Stang Bihan, 29000 Quimper, France

• Area

  5908.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Pascal Léopold

• Location

  32 Rue de Stang Bihan, 29000 Quimper, France

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Pascal Leopold

• Area

  5908.0 m2

• Engineering

  Artofact; Batitherm; Sofresid Engineering; Changement à Vue; Le Bruit des Cailloux; Ouest Coordination

• Timber Structure Construction

  BRITTON

• Concrete Firm

  LE BRIS

• Concrete Furniture

  Lafarge

• Client

  Quimper Communauté

• Cost

  10 862 263 €TTC

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With a bioclimatic design, the project relies on wood and concrete to build an allegory of the nature, both in its aesthetics and in its ambition to use at best the own qualities of the two materials: inertia, structural efficiency and plasticity of the concrete.

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This is used in a configuration of Trombe wall; carbon footprint, health safety, thermal efficiency (integral insulation) and structural efficiency of wood material (38m range without intermediate bearing point).

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