SUBJECT NAME: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

SUBJECT CODE: ARP-430

TOPIC: CASE STUDY (PAVILION CUM CONVENTION CENTER)

SUBMITTED TO- SUBMITTED BY-

AR. SARIKA GAUTAM HARMAN SINGH VIRDI
AR. SHADAB KHAN KUMAR PREETAM BHARADWAJ
AR. HARPREET SINGH
AR. SARANG GOEL
INTRODUCTION: SITE PLAN
CENTER POMPIDOU METZ

• Location: Metz, France.

• Architect: Shigeru Ban Architects.
• Area: 11,330 m².
• Site Area: 12,000 m²
• Completion Year: 2010.
• The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a
museum of modern and
contemporary art.
• Features semi-permanent and
temporary exhibitions from the
large collection. INFERENCES:
• The museum is the largest • The site of this building can be
accessed by the means of 3
temporary exhibition space
present roads.
outside Paris in France offering an • The entries have been segregated
area of 5,000m2 divided between according to the function it caters
3 galleries, a theatre, and an to, like the staff, the service and
auditorium. the public entries are remote to
each other.
 THE THREE BOXES
CONCEPT:
CHINESE HAT

LOOSENESS, MESSINESS, FLEXIBILTY, AGGREGATION,

RIGIDTY OF WOOD MALLEABILITY & STRUCTURE ANGULATION
DENSITY OF STRAW

The Roof is one of the largest and most complex built to date,
which was inspired by a Chinese hat found in Paris by Shigeru Ban. • 3 galleries extrude out of the building
INFERENCES: envelope and face towards the three
• Simple volumes like a rectangle was to used create a functional landmarks of the city.
shape which was then crowned by the organic roof which is not • The boxes were rotated so that
as functional yet aesthetic. natural light comes directly.
• These volumes would have a very simple articulation among • Long narrow plan has been inspired
them too. from NAVE of Metz cathedral.
 PLANNING:

• From the Forum, the visitor’s eye is

drawn to the Main Nave, the main
exhibition space where the largest
works of art are displayed.
• The choice of a hexagon is justified by the
GROUND FLOOR PLAN • Covering 1,200m2, this area
fact that the French consider a hexagon as
provides flexibility, with the ceiling
a special symbol of their country because 1. Grand Nef gallery.
2. Core. rising progressively from a height of
France’s geographical shape is hexagonal. 3. Ticket counter. 5.70 to 18 meters.
• The center contains three main special 4. Forum.
INFERENCES:
exhibition galleries, each shaped like a 5. Offices.
6. Studio • The public and the staff areas were well divided by the means of
narrow box, stacked over one another
•
7. Auditorium gallery spaces.
Providing an exhibition area of over 5,000 8. Café.
• The forum or the foyer interlinked each space with hexagonal core.
square meters overall.
 FIRST FLOOR PLAN SECOND FLOOR PLAN THIRD FLOOR PLAN
THE THREE GALLERIES:
• The general galleries with varying requirements for lengths were based on a 15m wide module to create
three simple square tubes with long, 90m deep rectangular volumes inside.
• The three exhibition galleries are built as concrete rectangular tubes with no supporting pillars.
• These galleries, superimposed on three floors and crossing one another, create vast open spaces that
allow exceptional freedom for the layout of exhibitions.
• The galleries feature large picture windows, oriented to offer prime viewing points over the city.
INFERENCES:
• The three galleries are weaving through the building at different levels and each are connected to the
admin areas and the public areas separately keeping the public movement free from the admin areas
• Different cores are provided for the vertical circulation of the public and staff respectively.
 SECTION:
Hexagonal steel frame
The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a large tower which contains the
hexagon structured round a central stairs and elevators.
spire reaching 77 m (253 ft).

• A 90m wide hexagon echoing the building's floor map.

• The roof structure is composed of sixteen kilometers
of glued laminated timber, that intersect to form
hexagonal wooden units resembling the cane-work
pattern of a Chinese hat.
• The roof's geometry is irregular, featuring curves and
counter-curves over the entire building. The entire
Large rectangular windows to each gallery wooden structure is covered with a white fiberglass
conceived to “frame” the view of the city’s membrane and a coating of Teflon.
cathedral and other monuments and
places of interests.

The space created beneath the tiered

INFERENCES: ceilings of the three shifted Gallery
Auditorium. • The basic planning seen in this section gave the roofing its organic form without hampering the Tubes make up the Grand Nef Gallery.
functionality of the spaces.