IAI Best Design Award - Old Building Renovation and Reconstruction
Project Name:FRAC Centre LES TURBULENCES ORLéANS / FRANCE
Introduction:
Funded by the client, Région Centre, with the support of the State, Europe and the City of Orléans, the new building allows the FRAC
Centre to assert its role as the world’s single laboratory for architecture.
Jakob + MacFarlane proposed the emergence of a dynamic form by extruding the structural
grid of the site’s existing buildings and distorting them. A strong architectural signal, interacting
with its context, this fluid and hybrid structure consists of three “emergences” composed.