ETOILE, France / Block Architects

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ETOILE大楼位于Évry城区的中部，一侧是当地繁忙的交通十字路口，距离市中心的RER车站大约15分钟的步行距离。建筑处在一个将城市功能紧密连接的重要战略位置。一条城市快速路R7将城区分割成两部分，为了增强区域之间的连接，建筑师试图转变大楼本身具有的“障碍物”性质，并纳入更强的交通功能，鼓励行人的穿越。ETOILE垂直于道路的线条像地面上的桥梁。建筑内的中庭，沿着北立面延伸，连接了东北部和西南部之间的步行交通。

ETOILE is located in the middle of Évry, fifteen minutes walk from the city center and the RER station of Évry-Courcouronnes, but also at the crossroads of its various districts: a strategic position to sew the pieces of the city. The project is installed on the edge of the present RN7 splitting the city in two. In order to anticipate and encourage this transformation from an urban barrier to a paved and crossing way, the long line of ETOILE is placed perpendicularly to the ground, which it seems to straddle like a bridge. The building is lined with a square that extends along the north façade to initiate a pedestrian link between the northeast of the city and the southwestern part.

▼建筑外观，overview of the building ©Philippe Piron

▼建筑位于连接城市交通的战略位置，the building is located in a strategic position sewing the transport of the city ©Philippe Piron

2012年，矿业研究所（IMT）为建设ETOILE开展竞赛。Block建筑事务所通过建筑为城市注入活力，这种区域中特殊的连续性获得了成功。建筑由地面部分一个有机多面体，以及上层部分一个“漂浮”的三层结构两部分组成。建筑高达21米，成为城市中一处显眼的地标。位于城市高速的一侧，重新激发了市民对交通快速路的定义。建筑刚性的框架结构、幕墙和内部的街道激活了这片区域。金属网格状立面的像素化风格唤起了人们对于科学的感知。Block 建筑事务所通过这种壮观的建筑语言和高科技展示方法响应了IMT的设计要求，宣传了Evere Val de Seine（PSEVS）的科学示范功能。

In 2012, the Mines-Télécom Institute (IMT) is launching a competition for the construction of ETOILE. Block was awarded the prize by placing the building in this exceptional architectural continuity in order to mark the new dynamism sought by the city. The building consists of two volumes: a mineral basement on the ground floor with a facetted and organic hull, overhung by a three-tiered building which, like a giant bilboard, peaks at 21 meters and is clearly signaled in the city . Reactivating a familiar gesture of the national aisles, a nod to Scott and Venturi, this rigid framework of the post-beam, the curtain façade and the inner street reactivate most of the Moderist vocabulary. But its metal mesh deployed inscribes the building in the present time: pixellization of the facade evokes scientific imagery and digital language. Through its spectacular architecture and high-tech display, Block responds to IMT’s request to erect an exemplary building that announces the revitalization of the Evry Val de Seine (PSEVS) Scientific Pole that welcomes it And mark its new entry.

▼建筑由两个风格区分明显的部分组成，the building consists two significantly different parts ©Philippe Piron

▼建筑上部“漂浮”的三层结构，the three-tiered building ‘floating’ above the the fundation ©Philippe Piron

▼地面部分的有机矿物形态，the ground floor with a facetted and organic hull ©Philippe Piron

ETOILE的设计包含了两个对立的部分：一个需要安静和集中精神的研究区域；另外一个是与其他研究人员分享、讨论的空间。建筑旨在融合这两个极点，研究和交流这两个对立的功能决定了建筑被分成两个不同区域。底层有机形态的部分包含了所有的公共空间，另外一部分则是上层的安静的研究室。

The ETOILE program is ambivalent: it contains areas dedicated to research, where calm and concentration are required, but also a series of places where researchers have the opportunity to share, expose and debate their work. It is a pole intended to experiment but also to communicate, disseminate and value the work carried out there. This duality between research and communication determines the architectural part of Block which divides the building into two distinct volumes. The organic form of the ground floor contains all the public spaces of the program and adapts to it by staying on one or two levels and sometimes in double height. The bilboard, on the other hand, contains in its three levels the more intimate spaces of the research laboratories.

▼建筑入口，entrance of the building ©Philippe Piron

▼入口大厅，entrance hall ©Philippe Piron

▼入口大厅一侧的中庭，the atrium within the center ©Philippe Piron

建筑主体反映了这个复杂结构的丰富性，但是却使用了简洁、有节制的混凝土、金属和木材作为主体材料，具有很强的工业精神。这种选择既经济又美观，赋予了使用者高度的归属感。建筑内部几乎不使用吊顶和胶合板，电路和管线直接暴露在空间中，体现了建筑的本质。

Block reflects the richness and imbrication of this sophisticated program in a spectacular architecture, but sober, minimal and economical in the implementation of its materials. In an industrial spirit, raw concrete, metal and wood are used. This choice is part of a non-ostentatious aesthetic of the counting, which privileges the space and the places offered to its users. The technical nature of the building is apparent in an architecture that is both didactic and practical: there are no false ceilings or plywood, cable tracks and ducts are exposed to users who can directly interact with their workplace.

▼礼堂，auditorium ©Philippe Piron