Technocentre Renault, Guyancourt
“L’Avancée” is the first building confronted by the visitor entering the Renault Technocenter complex. The building is developed around a main axis which anchors it to the site. An inclined plane, the “fifth facade”, is perforated with openings which reveal the grid composition of the building and bring natural light to its center. The inclination creates a transition between the horizontality of the site and the verticality of the buildings that follow. Design studios are harboured in the low horizontal structure extending from the inclined plane.
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Program
Offices, restaurant, car design studios, laboratories, vehicule presentation center, auditorium, etc.
Client
Régie Renault
Project team
Chaix & Morel et Associés, Paris
Philippe Chaix, Jean-Paul Morel, Rémy van Nieuwenhove, Denis Germond, Walter Grasmug, Benoît Sigros
and Manuel Bieler, Laurent Biévelot, Benedicte Bisiaux, Nelly Breton, Paolo Carrozino, Eric Despretz, Dietmar Feichtinger, Jean-Pierre de Graef, Stephane Monfort, Joe O’sullivan, Woytek Sepiol, Anabel Sergent
Ingerop, engineering, coordination
Séchaud & Bossuyt, structure, heating
Inex, mechanical engineers
CEP, quality surveyors
3S, scheduling, construction management and coordination
Key figures
Area : 80 000 m² SHON
Construction costs excl. VAT : 83,8 M €
Competition 1991 - completion 1996
Photography credits
Alain Goustard
Christian Richters
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