Pompidou Centre , Ile De France

Pompidou Centre - details and images

Pompidou Centre houses a vast public library - Bibliothèque publique d'information (BPI), National Museum of Modern Art and IRCAM, a center of music and acoustics research. The name is given by Georges Pompidou Centre, who was president of France from 1969 to 1974.

Center is the creation of Italian architect Renzo Piano, the British architect couple Richard Rogers and Sue and Edmund Happold Engineers resistance and Peter Rice. Pompidou Centre construction project was entrusted to the execution of this team after an architectural competition whose results were announced in 1971. Specialized journals have said the Centre Pompidou design "architecture turned upside down" and the team accomplished and has earned a reputation as a bold approach by raising style. All structural and functional elements of the building are painted by different color codes: green - sanitary pipes, blue ones for air conditioning, electrical installations are yellow and safety installations are red.

Building's main priority was to ensure traffic flow and full use of available space, so all access systems, stairs, elevators are found outside.

Here are some technical data:
Area that covers the center stretches over two acres, living area is 103,305 m². The structure is seven stories and a height of 42 meters, length 166 m, width of 60 m. To construct the building have been used over 15,000 tons of steel, 11,000 windows and 50,000 m² m³ of reinforced concrete. Building construction was completed on time and under estimated costs for completion. Pompidou Centre has cost about 100 million dollars.

Architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, together with Gianfranco Franchini have designed the building line of a continuous spatial evolution charts.

The building was built in two parts:

1. first three levels of infrastructure (floor -1, 0 and 1) hosting facilities and technical services area, called the forum where you can climb to the library on the 2nd floor and 3, and the snack bar of the library or museum on the stairs escalators or fixed with glass elevators. Downstairs there postal center, the center of creation, a gallery shop and children. On the 1st floor there is a cafe and gallery give South and concert halls in the basement there.

2. seven levels of metal and glass structure, including terrace and mezzanine, where activity is concentrated around the center, except Stravinsky Square IRCAM. At two stages (2 and 3) are under renovation, but on the 4th floor in the 33 rooms we can enjoy works like audio or video projection screens or walls, movies on Media Center PCs, sculptures in metal and Wood, photos and of course paintings and sketches by Picasso or Matisse, among many other artists. All are part of contemporary art. On the 5th floor are exhibitions of sculpture and paintings belonging to modern art. On the 6th floor and there are organized receptions and private restaurant Georges.

The structure consists of 14 metal gates of 48m length support beams 13 each and are spaced at 12.8 m. On the top, but there are elements at each level the steel arch and have 8m long and weighing 10t. Huge steel cables anchored into the ground 45 m long building and take the weight of a more flexible form. Each floor has a fixed 7m floor measured from the floor. Glass and steel superstructure is ideal for providing large spaces, open inside.

After 20 years of building construction, architect Renzo decided to rebuild the market in the north, near the main building and Brancusi's studio. It is a concrete and metal building that play a part in the original workshop and especially the roof which offers a special illumination. There are found several copies of the works of Romanian artist.

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