Bâtiment administratif et technique
Assistant : Fr.-Frédéric Muller
Structure : MH INGENIERIE
Fluides : JOST – Economiste : C2BI
Bureau de contrôle : NORISKO
Concours, lauréat 2005
Voisins : Le Corbusier, Yannis Xenakis, lock of Niffer 1 (1960)
Next to the hyperboloïde building and the control tower of Le Corbusier and Xenakis for the large template lock commending the Mulhouse channel to the Rhine we constructed a flat building half administrative with a oval patio planted with a Araucaria Araucana…and in the other technical half a double height square workshop for welding and mechanical maintenance and emergencies. This part can be crossed by trucks and machinery. It also offers workshops open to the outdoors which can be protected from the wind by large scrolling canvases supporting the magnificent works of digital art pioneer Miguel Chevalier called “supra nature”.
The 4 side facade of the flat steel structure and roof planted building is a diamond alternation of Corten steel panels and glass which create kinetic dynamics on a static object due to our movement using the large curves of the bridge crossing the great lock and the global landscape.
This geometric composition creates a classic mystification that on two angles the building is completely opaque in steel and on its two other opposite angles transparent and translucent. Inside the steel panels are like laminated mirrors. Thus opposed at 90 ° to the glass ones, reflect one in the other a landscape which dissolves between visible and deformed reality to fusion both barge convoys floating in the landscape like in my memories of the happy hours of the mirrors stands at the June St-Jean fair. This device was originally conceived for the Museum of Trautmann’ s dorf zoological garden in Merano in 1997.
Charles Pennequin one of the greater poet performer alive did beautiful texts and poems on this building associated with the look of Alain Villa and Philippe Ruault, precious photographers for a book published by Al Dante, one of the last French editors of contemporary poetry.
Phd botanist Philippe Obliger.
