Cartier Foundation
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| Foundation Cartier | |
| Designer | Jean Nouvel |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Date | 1991 to 1994 |
| Building Type | Museum |
| Construction System | Steel, glass |
| Climate | Mild Temperate |
| Context | Urban |
| Architectural Style | High Tech |
| Street Address | 261 Bld Raspail |
| Notes | also known as Fondation Cartier |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Cartier Foundation for the Contemporary Art |
| Cost | 15,000,000 Euro (13,700,000 Million USD) |
| Area | 11,300 square meters (122,000 square feet) |
| Awards | Exhibition spaces, offices and parking for the Cartier Foundation for the Contemporary Art. |
The Foundation Cartier was built in 1994, the use of screens creates a transparent effect and unobtrusive connection with the city surroundings.
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"The phantom in the park. With its transparency. With its enclosure. Trees are visible behind the high glazed barrier, which has taken the place of a long opaque wall, brushing against their eight-meter high enclosure. The lone Chateaubriand Cedar rises up, framed by two screens which assert the entrance. The visitor passes beneath the cedar and sees the spectacle of the trees surrounding the glazed exhibition hall, also eight meters high, in a reading through the depth of the site.
"In summer the huge sliding bays disappear and the hall transforms into the extension of the park, given rhythm by high posts. The architecture is about lightness, with a refined framework of steel and glass. Architecture where the game consists in blurring the tangible boundaries of the building and rendering superfluous the reading of a solid volume amid poetics of fuzziness and effervescence. When virtuality is attacked by reality, architecture must more than ever have the courage to take on the image of contradiction."
[edit] Project Team
- Architectural Team: Jean Nouvel, Emmanuel Cattani & Associés
- Project Manager: Didier Brault
- Architects: Pierre André Bohnet, Laurence Ininguez, Philippe Mathieu, Viviane Morteau, Guillaume Potel, Steeve Ray (oz-architectures), Arnaud Villard, Stephane Robert (Site manager)
- Structures: Ove Arup and Partners
- Façades: Arnaud de Bussiere et associés
- Thermic: Riedweg et Gendre, Sefca
- Electricity, Plumbing: Integral Ingenierie
- Landscape Architect: Ingenieur et Paysage
- Security: Casso
- Quantity Surveyor: Pascal Madinier
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[edit] References
- Project information. Ateliers Jean Nouvel web site. http://www.jeannouvel.com. Viewed by D. Owen, 2008.0404.
