CENTER

POMPIDOU
Renzo Piano
Richard Rogers
 Location

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1 Location
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Paris, neighborhood of
Beaubourg

Pompidou Center
2. Former location
from the Halles of Paris.
3. Louvre Museum
 Isolation

Glassed facade for the side

where the sun sets in the evening.

Opaque facade for where it falls

the sun in the morning.
Given that the location is to the
north of the Tropic of Cancer
the sun always comes from the south.
 Views

Urbanly the
project helped to
consolidate the profile
urban.
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Urbanly, the
project helped to
consolidate the profile
urban.
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Urbanly the
the project helped to
consolidate the profile
urban.
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For the great

space of the square
don't make the
surrounding streets
they lose scale, they
makes use of the
tree-covered.
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For the great

space of the square
don't make the
surrounding streets
they lose scale, it
makes use of the
tree cover.
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It is interrupted the
tree-lined in the
corner of the street
what leads to the
Halls of Paris,
to generate a
income to to
project.
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The interruption of the

tree-lined in the
street corner
what leads to the
Halls of Paris,
to generate a
entry to to
project.
 Views

It is interrupted the
tree-covered in the
corner of the street
what leads to the
Parisian halls,
to generate a
entry to the
project.
 Views

It interrupts the
tree-covered in the
corner of the street
what leads to the
The Halles of Paris,
to generate a
entry to the
project.
 Historical Context
Paris had lost its prominence as a metropolis of art
contemporary in favor of New York.

It was born in response to the anti-museum rebellion of young art in the

the decade of May '68 and to the social movements that
questioned the established culture, and introduced a canon so 1959
unexpected as successful, reinforced by the actions of others
colossi, like theTate Modern.
A change in the museum paradigm was being sought, no longer
they wanted a permanent institution over time, but
that will generate new cultural movements

The Machine of Culture

It was conceived with the Maison de la Culture, which would house
multidisciplinary cultural institutions
Georges Pompidou
● National Museum of Modern Art
1911 - 1974
● Industrial Creation Center
● Public Information Library
presidential period
● institute dedicated to acoustic research (Ircam)
1969-1974
He was criticized by Jean Baudrillard (1977) in his book 'the effect
died before the work Beaubourg, for the banalization of art, its transformation into
be concluded a consumer good.
 Antonio Sant'Elia New City ARCHIGRAM
The futuristic utopia of Antonio Sant' Elia permeated the film.
Metropolis, by Fritz Lang, Archigram was absorbed by the
science fiction cinema of the sixties and seventies.

They proposed a deeply technological architecture, made with

new industrial materials, and indicative of a way of life
carefree and utopian.
Archigram was initially futuristic, anti-heroic, and pro-consumption, and it was inspired by
in technology to create a reality with hypothetical projects.

His works offered visions of a glamorous FUTURE OF MACHINES.

 Renzo Piano

California Academy of Sciences

Oscar Museum
 Richard Rogers

School of the Judiciary

Reuters Building
 Context
The Beaubourg plateau

The Pompidou Center was built in the very center of Paris: in the so-called Beaubourg plateau, between the Cité, the Marais, and Les Halles, which in 1960
it was just an empty lot: a wasteland, which served as parking for the users of Les Halles.
 Context

Parking lot land where the Pompidou Center was built.

Until 1969, they were occupied by a parking lot and a workshop for the destruction of boxes and crates from the nearby Halles.

It was an 'unhealthy islet', which became barren land and then a parking lot, is chosen to house the future building.
 Inspiration
Back to Archigram

Archigram: Inspired by oil platforms, NASA launch pads, and science fiction.
Archigram used the language of comics and collage to disseminate their proposals: cities with broken and colorful horizons, streets with
Cadillacs, zeppelins, and large colorful advertisements.
Flexible, transformable, lightweight and dynamic.
 Concept

Culture machine

Being a machine was a risk taken by Beaubourg as

museum building. "No construction ages as
quickly like the machines,” and this contradicts
with the "eternal building" conceived by other architects in the
past for museum design.
Only a replacement of some parts is made such as
maintenance for this building.

Influence a others
museum projects
what they wanted to assume
comparable risks and
the story of the
museums inició a
new cycle.
Empty container
Idea power
Turn the building around

How?
Exposing the technical elements of the
brightly colored tubes on the outside,
including escalators in tubes
of glass that zigzag across the facade
Take the structure out to the main building to maximize the
exterior functional movement and flow, releasing
the interior space and promote an approach
interdisciplinary.

Expose the materials and

technical elements
 Style
It was of High Tech style, the high architecture
technology, also known as modernism
late, is the incorporation of elements of the
high-tech industry in building design.
At the Pompidou Center, this idea of structure
exposed is taken to the extreme, with components
structural elements that apparently serve little or
no structural function. In this case, the use of
Structural steel is a matter of style or aesthetics.
 Spatial Organization

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 Circulations Design elements

Bottom of the
painted staircase with
the red that distinguishes
the facilities
dedicated a the
communication.

Covered escalators. Hallways covered by tubes

Between sections, each segment is they protect from crystal
communicate with a plant. visitors of the inclement weather
meteorological.
 Colors and their correspondence
BLUE - AIR

Cooling towers Air hoses

 Colors and their correspondence
GREEN- WATER YELLOW- ENERGIES
It is used here for air conditioning, but also for installations. The energy of the Centre Pompidou is exclusively electric.
sanitary facilities in the different spaces and for fire hydrants. electricity is used for lighting, but also for operating
They are also outside, where they sit next to the pipes. elevators, freight lifts, and escalators, as well as all
blues. When they cross the building, they are on the roof and the devices that operate in different spaces (for
remain visible. example, computers).

Pipes Electrical transformers

 Colors and their correspondence
RED - CIRCULATIONS

It is the color of blood

that, circulating in the
organism, gives life. Here
we found an idea
important of the project,
what is creating a place of
meeting between the
public and culture: the
public that circulates in the
caterpillar, like blood in
an artery gives life to the
culture.

Stairs Elevators - Freight Lifts

 Structural system
The outer coating is a
steel and glass curtain wall, which
incorporates elements solids The Pompidou is a caricature of the modernist ideal.
metallic and that is separated from the from the building-as-a-kit of pieces, where the
structure to allow for replacement structural elements such as frames, floors or
easily divided. roofs should be made removable in any
practical sense, which often implies the form
The different systems of the exterior of the building.
the building are painted with
different colors for differences
its various functions. The structure
and the most important components
the ventilation were painted in
white, the stairs and elevators
they were painted gray
silver, the ventilation was painted in
blue, plumbing y control of
pipe fires were green and
the elements that allow the
movement throughout the building, they are
painted red. One of the
moving elements, for which the
the center is more known, it is the
escalator on the facade
west, a tube that zigzags until the
top of the building offering
a spectacular view of the city.
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PLAZA
Structural system

The structural system adapts to the

idea of the architects. Generate a
flexible space with ample light that
allows total freedom at the moment
of design the sample
museum-related.
 Structural system

A supports a
For the divisions beam to put transmit the
partition walls were used loads of the runners and of
the escalator
 Structural system
Sloped Square

The building is never completely finished and

definitive. It is a structure
open, to which additions or removals could be made
the structural elements without affecting the
perfect composition of the building and its use
of the internal spaces.

The flexibility of the structure and the height

from the plants, allows for generating between floors and
even opening the floors to generate
connections.
Structural system
 Structural system
Leaving the interior of the building:
the normal beams, exposing
the entire structure used in the
escalator with an arch of
horseshoe that closes the space
interior
 Structural system
The gaze can be directed at the buildings.
adjacent, many of which
correspond to style constructions
modernist o historicist. In this
I view the Pompidou Center as a place
allows before the eyes of the inhabitant
stacked moments are revealed
(past stories), stored in the
architecture and in the urban structure of
this sector of the city.
Structural system
Its upper part consists of two tubes of
0 419 mm, and the bottom, by two round ones whose
diameter varies, from the interior towards the ends,
depending on the effort to be endured, from 0 to 225 mm
a 160 mm of 0.
 Conclusions

The site was a parking lot, when it lifts the

Pompidou Center the place becomes a point
of meeting between the environment, the inhabitant.

By its very function as a museum, music hall, the

library, exhibition hall the Pompidou Center
gathers people, where the square is a point of
meeting interacting with each other, in turn
integrating it with its environment.

The Pompidou Center is part of a network of

public spaces bringing people together
with the city, with its environment, turning it into a
person.
 Conclusions

With the Pompidou Center, the evidence is clear.

importance of the project responding to a
concept, which is in the world of ideas, and that
through architecture, it becomes tangible.
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