Het Huis Stoclet in Brussel - Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Aalst

eigen bureau begon. Ban liet zich onder andere inspireren door het werk van Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe.
Hij ontwierp talloze tentoonstellingen, waaronder de show van Alvar Aalto in de Axis
Gallery te Tokio in 1986. Verder ontwierp hij gebouwen, zoals het Odawara paviljoen in
Kanagawa (1990), de Paper Gallery in Tokio (1994), het Paper House in Lake Yamanaka
(1995) en de Paper Church in Takatori, Hyogo (1995). Ook ontwierp hij het Japanse
paviljoen op de Expo 2000 in Hannover. Daarnaast bedacht Ban ook afbreekbare
structuren, zoals zijn Paper Refugee Shelter, gemaakt van plastic vellen en papieren
buizen.
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Metz Centre Pompidou / Shigeru Ban’s winning project
Just a few months after the official announcement of the winning project, the Paris
exhibition presents the proposals of the six finalists in the architecture competition for
construction of the Metz Centre Pompidou.
Shigeru Ban, Tokyo & Jean de Gastines, Paris and Philip Gumuchdjian of London,
have won the design competition to build the new Pompidou Centre in the city of Metz, 3
1/2 hours east of Paris. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the opening of the
Pompidou Centre in Paris, the new facility is scheduled to open in 2007.
The Pompidou Center and the city of Metz in eastern France announced the
decision in January 2003, in agreement with the ministry for the arts, culture &
communications, to set up the first decentralized branch of the ‘Centre National d'Art et de
Culture Georges Pompidou’ in Metz. The building will be constructed in the ‘amphithéâtre’
district, currently the focus of a wide-ranging development project; it will host exhibition
halls, ateliers, conference rooms and administrative offices. The project will also permit
future expansion with the addition of a mediateque.
Total area: 12,000 m2 for 6,000 square meters / exhibition space: 6,000 square
meters. Costs: € 35 million.
Short description of the winning project: a large pavilion set within a new park, the
museum consists of both permanent and temporary exhibition space. The centre's most
interesting feature will be the roof – inspired by a woven bamboo chinese hat, a giant,
hexagonal umbrella made of woven steel and plywood protected by a translucent lattice
membrane on top will cover the entire complex. It protects the facades from the weather
in winter and provides shade in the summer.
3 rectangular, climate-controlled, steel truss, cantilevered tubes, each measuring
100m long x 15m wide, will form the basis of the galleries for the permanent collections
and will be sited so as to frame views of the city's historic monuments, such as its railway
station and cathedral.
The whole forum will be encased with movable glass shutters that can close off the
forum from, or open it up to, the surrounding gardens. The scheme offers the curators a
broad range of flexible spaces and lighting opportunities. The only windows will be each
end of the galleries, thus emphasising the importance of the internal lighting. Enormous
curtains will reduce the natural light as required.
The floor of the public forum is cooled and warmed using re-circulated ground
water while the large forum space is cooled and warmed by re-circulating the tempered air
of the gallery spaces.
The design team includes the landscape architect Michel Desvigne, recipient of the
medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2000, who worked on the Dallas Centre