Cinématique du phasage de chantier de la Philharmonie de Paris, modélisation des espaces fonctionnels, Architecte Jean Nouvel. Projet en cours depuis 2009.

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Le portfolio ci-dessus montre le travail de Hugh Dutton Associés réalisé pour la Philharmonie de Paris. Pour en savoir plus sur nos études pour ce projet, vous pouvez regarder ICI, ICI et ICI [VIDEO]

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In Guangzhou Swire Properties have recently completed a mixed used commercial development taking up a full city block on comprising hotels, offices and shopping including a cultural centre for the city. TaiKoo Hui is a large-scale multi-faceted complex in the thriving heart of the Tianhe Central Business District of Guangzhou, developed and managed by Swire Properties. Offering a gross floor area of approximately 358,000 sqm (exclusive of the cultural center), it incorporates a prime shopping mall, two Grade A office towers, a cultural center, the first Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Guangzhou, and serviced apartments. More info at taikoohui.com

Daylight is a key ingredient to the Taikoo Hui shopping centre, and notably with the intent to flood the mall with light deep into the lower and basement levels. The glass components designed by Hugh Dutton Associates celebrate daylight. They provide sculptural expression that responds to light through filtering it, diffusing it, playing with it’s shadows, reflecting it.

Hugh Dutton Associates were engaged by Swire as specialist design consultants to architects Arquitectonica for all the feature glazing components of the development; notably the main entrance atria boxes, and waving linear skylight down the central spine of the shopping mall.

Other fragments, such as the cultural centre lobby, glass footbridges, office building and hotel lobbies and canopies, glass flooring and glass canopies, are carried out in a similar design approach based on simple geometric compositions that play with light. Waffle grids in the case of the entrance box atria and a curvilinear series of glass facets for the main skylight. For both, the simple surfaces are reinforced with tensile bracing systems that complement the design composition with points of interest or spatial geometric compositions. Careful attention is paid to the design of the assembly details and structural components.

The glass box atria are waffle grids in welded steel plate ant then clad in aluminium casings to conceal the connection details and glazing joints. The long spans are assisted with the cable and inverted pyramid struts that culminate in a custom feature steel casting. A notable feature of the glass boxes are the glass to glass corners the play a key role in the feeling of transparency and lightness. The boxes are more waffle surfaces that play with light than they are devices for spatial containment.

The skylight roof comprises a series of facets of planar glass that describe an undulating surface from one end of the mall to the other. The undulations peak over the escalator exits to provide access onto the level 3 landscaped deck. The cable system assists the cross beams to span across the void of the mall but also protection against uplift forces in typhoon conditions.

In all cases the glass is fritted and treated to limit excessive glare. Black dots are printed on the glass surface to attenuate the glare, whilst still letting light flood into the space below.

Inside the mall, glass footbridges reinforce the use of glass as an expression of the light penetration into the mall. Conceived as the thinnest translucent wafers possible, 450mm deep for 16m approx. spans, they are supported by a tight array of heavy steel beams clad in translucent opal interlayer glass. To achieve the thin design, damping devices are provided for to limit the discomfort of the pedestrian traffic.

In Guangzhou Swire Properties have recently completed a mixed used commercial development taking up a full city block on comprising hotels, offices and shopping including a cultural centre for the city. TaiKoo Hui is a large-scale multi-faceted complex in the thriving heart of the Tianhe Central Business District of Guangzhou, developed and managed by Swire Properties. Offering a gross floor area of approximately 358,000 sqm (exclusive of the cultural center), it incorporates a prime shopping mall, two Grade A office towers, a cultural center, the first Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Guangzhou, and serviced apartments. More info at taikoohui.com

Département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre, Paris

Maître d’ouvrage: Etablissement Public du Musée du Louvre
Architectes: Rudy Ricciotti et Mario Bellini
Consultants façade et structure: HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés

PHOTO CI-DESSUS: Détail de la couverture de la cour Visconti, département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre
© R. Ricciotti – M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre
© photo 2011 Musée du Louvre / Olivier Ouadah

Le 4 janvier 2011 le chantier du département des Arts de l’Islam a ouvert ses portes pour une visite de presse à la découverte des nouveaux espaces architecturaux du Musée du Louvre qui seront inauguré l’été prochaine.
Par la suite nous partageons les notes de Hugh Dutton relatives à la conception technique de la couverture du bâtiment.
Ces notes seront bientôt mises à disposition comme annexes au dossier de presse officiel du musée du Louvre disponible ici.

PHOTO CI-DESSUS: Montage de la maille métallique extérieure, couverture de la cour Visconti, département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre
© R. Ricciotti – M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre
© photo 2011 Musée du Louvre / Antoine Mongodin

INTENTIONS - par Hugh Dutton

Le concours public pour la réalisation du nouveau département des Arts de l’Islam du musée du Louvre a été remporté par les architectes Mario Bellini et Rudy Ricciotti.
Les nouveaux aménagements prévoient une verrière surplombant l’espace d’exposition au rez de cour et partiellement le parterre dans la cour Visconti, dans l’aile sud du musée. HDA a été missionné en tant que spécialiste pour la conception technique de la couverture et des façades en verre, ceci incluant l’analyse structurelle et le design de l’enveloppe.
L’intention architecturale de HDA était de créer un «voile léger», «flottant délicatement sur la muséographie», «une aile de libellule», «filtrant la lumière»…selon les mots des architectes.
L’enjeu était donc de masquer tout effort structurel par un jeu subtile entre maillagesetsupports.
Paradoxalement, le geste simple d’une surface lisse et ondulante engage un processus d’extrême complexité technique et d’analyse structurelle avancée.

La souplesse de la forme contraste avec le contexte gravitaire de la cour.
Comment préserver la fluidité du geste sans monter l’effort ?

PHOTO CI-DESSUS: Montage de la structure couvrante de la cour Visconti, département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre
© R. Ricciotti – M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre
© photo 2011 Musée du Louvre / Antoine Mongodin

POINTS CLÉS DE LA CONCEPTION TECHNIQUE DE LA VERRIÈRE

Nappe libre
La nappe déterminée par le dessin architectural n’est pas une forme développable. Elle est discrétisée en surfaces planes et permet aux vitrages de s’adapter à la surface libre. En proposant d’alterner les facettes rectangulaires et triangulaires, l’entreprise Waagner Biro a permis de minimiser la largeur des joints.

Structure tridimensionnelle
La structure consiste en une double nappe triangulée, composée de tubes de 60 mm de diamètre et entièrement soudée. Son épaisseur varie pour répondre aux sollicitations structurelles, notamment au droit des poteaux.

Légèreté
HDA a œuvré à alléger au maximum la structure en développant une série d’études paramétriques à l’aide d’algorithmes d’optimisation, réduisant considérablement la masse totale – en comparaison à une nappe tridimensionnelle classique composée de barres diagonales multidirectionnelles.
La solution proposée consiste à minimiser le nombre de diagonales, en conservant les éléments tendus plutôt que comprimés, évitant ainsi les sollicitations au flambement.
Les barres faiblement sollicitées ont ensuite été supprimées lorsque les nœuds soudés de la résille fournissaient une raideur suffisante.

PHOTO CI-DESSUS: Montage de la maille métallique extérieure, couverture de la cour Visconti, département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre
© R. Ricciotti – M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre
© photo 2011 Musée du Louvre / Antoine Mongodin

Bord Fin
La nappe se termine par un bord affiné pour minimiser l’impact visuel en rive tout en restant au plus près des besoins structurels.

Poteaux dansants et stabilité latérale
Afin de contribuer à la sensation de légèreté, les poteaux sont inclinés et affinés à leurs extrémités. Ces différentes inclinaisons fournissent des composantes horizontales aidant à la stabilité de l’ensemble de la structure. combinés à trois points de contreventement sur les rives est, sud et ouest, ils assurent la stabilité latérale de l’ensemble.

Transparence et protection solaire
Les performances de transparence et de protection solaire, a priori contradictoires, ont été obtenues par un choix astucieux d’utilisation de résilles en tôle d’aluminium expansé, associées à une couche de nid d’abeille permettant de conserver des lignes de vision vers les façades, tout en limitant les apport solaire directs.

Un ATEX (Avis technique Expérimental) pour des vitrages innovants
cette surface libre à pente variable n’est pas conforme aux normes décrites dans les règles de construction dtu se rapportant à l’eau. une étude spécifique a été menée en collaboration avec le bureau de contrôle et le CSTB pour valider cette conception. La mise en place d’une feuillure EPdM drainée avec des joints d’étanchéité en silicone a été retenue.

Verre clair
Les vitrages des façades sont de qualité “Extra clair”, dépourvus d’oxydes de fer, qui donnent aux verres employés couramment une teinte verdâtre. Ce verre de haute qualité optique permet aux espaces de bénéficier de la lumière naturelle la plus authentique possible.

PHOTO CI-DESSUS: La cour Visconti le 24 aout 2011, département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre
© R. Ricciotti – M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre
© photo Musée du Louvre / SPACEM

Façades en verre structurel
Les façades ont étés conçues pour dématérialiser les limites entre espace intérieur et extérieur et préserver l’impression de flottement de la nappe.
Simples verres, sans cadre, sans raidisseur de fortes épaisseurs et renforcés par un traitement thermique de trempe, les plus grandes hauteurs atteignent 6m.
La mise en place, classique, de meneaux aurait “cloué” le projet au sol en formant une barricade autour l’espace muséographique. L’utilisation d’un vitrage isolant, reflex contemporain immédiat, aurait nécessité la mise en place de ces meneaux, bordés de joints noirs. Une simulation du comportement thermique des espaces a été menée avant d’écarter cette option.

DONNÉS DU PROJET

Dimensions Hors Tout: 48m72 x 32m48
Poids de la Structure tout compris (résille, poteaux, contreventement etc.): 135T
Poids surfacique de la résille : 50kg/m2
Nombre de barres dans la résille: 8286
Surface de vitrage: 1646m2
Nombre d’éléments de vitrages (triangles et carrés): 1806
Nombre de panneaux triangulaires de la maille en métal déployé (extérieurs et intérieurs): 2350

PHOTO CI-DESSUS: La cour Visconti le 25 novembre 2011, département des Arts de l’Islam, musée du Louvre
© R. Ricciotti – M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre
© photo Musée du Louvre / SPACEM

Pubblichiamo oggi alcuni disegni tecnici che mostrano il progresso del progetto Pylons of the future – Dancing with Nature – risultato vincitore del premio Terna per i piloni elettrici del futuro. A breve pubblicheremo informazioni dettagliato su questo progetto di architettura parametrica che rappresenta, per HDA, una grande sfida di architettura e ingegneria.

Terna è un grande operatore di reti per la trasmissione dell’energia elettrica, primo operatore indipendente in Europa e settimo al mondo, con oltre 63mila km di linee gestite.

Un’azienda al suo secondo “contest” internazionale sui nuovi tralicci, con una forte connotazione tecnologica e al tempo stesso con grande attenzione ad ambiente, costi dell’energia, evoluzione della “rete del futuro”.

Per ulteriori informazioni potete visionare il press-kit qui sotto, leggere Premio Terna: i piloni elettrici del futuro oppure visitare la pagina facebook di Terna Company

As we have already announce a few weeks ago, HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés is part of the design team led by Heerim Architects & Planners that won first prize for the design competition of PASSENGER TERMINAL 2 for the Incheon Int. Airport.

You can find below the press-kit material, both in English and French.
If you want to download the entire press-kit in a unique ZIP file, please follow the links below using the following:
username: complexitys
password: HDAparis1

Incheon Airport Competition | PRESS-KIT | English

Incheon Airport Competition | PRESS-KIT | French

Incheon Airport Competition _ PRESS-KIT-TEXT _ English
Incheon Airport Competition _ PRESS-KIT-TEXT _ French

INCHEON_03_HDA Design Report

You can also download high-resolution version of images above at flickr.com/hdapairs
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Design credits:
Main Architects: Heerim Architects & Planners (Seoul) teamed up with Mooyoung Architects and Engineer (Seoul) and Gensler (Los Angeles)
Structural design and envelope: HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés (Paris)
Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti (New York)
Consultants: IBE Consulting Engineers, Landrum and Brown, Lea+Elliott, Sap Group, BNP Associates

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If you want to download the entire press-kit in a unique ZIP file, please follow the links below using the following:
username: complexitys
password: HDAparis1

Incheon Airport Competition | PRESS-KIT | English

Incheon Airport Competition | PRESS-KIT | French

Abbiamo riscoperto questa intervista a Hugh Dutton (in italiano) realizzata in occasione dell’evento e pubblicata da edilportale.

Nell’intervista, oltre al progetto della Centrale Termica Iride Energia, Hugh Dutton cita due importanti lavori sul territorio italiano: la passerella olimpica a Torino, realizzata nel 2006, e i piloni elettrici “Dancing with Nature” che sono attualmente in fase di test e produzione per la società Terna.

For the atrium of an office building in Hong Kong, HDA were commissioned by Swire Properties to make a study for a sculptural staircase which would give an identity to the iconic building. These images refer to one of the proposals we have developed.

Located on the border of the popular Wan Chai district, and the business district of Central, the work draws on the playful atmosphere of Wan Chai and its many neon lights. The atrium consists of the reception on the 1st floor and a garden on the 2nd, and the staircase which creates the connection the two floors with a spiral movement inspired by the circular form of the basic geometry of the building which is centered in an octagon.

The work is composed of glass ribbons on the ceiling of the garden level which eventually become the walls and railings of the staircase. The glass is supported by a mesh of spirals and extruded stainless steel suspension straps. The ensemble is lit by strip lights in LED neon reminiscent of Wan Chai, which also highlight the movement of the spiral.

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We are very happy to announce that our design team, led by Heerim Architects & Planners, won first prize for the design competition of PASSENGER TERMINAL 2 for the Incheon Int. Airport.

An airport is a front door for a nation, like the grand railway stations of capital cities of the industrial age. The airport’s design is therefore iconic and symbolic of the Korean nation. The Heerim team identified the Phoenix as that icon evoking Korean history and future ambitions of reunification.
The roof of 30 hectares is designed as an active energy system, a “breathing roof” with an ambition to transform a potential energy glutton into a positive environmental asset. The general intent of the design for the user is a fluid, calm and luminous passage through the terminal. The flowing geometry of the structural grid-shell systems is visible through the light filtering roof. This delicate skeleton of optimal and funicular shapes provides articulation of the passenger flow as well as forming the expression the wings of the symbolic bird.
Minimal facades in cable and energy performance glass further address the question of sustainability by optimising energy transmission through the skin whilst maintaining clear views of the aircraft, the runways and the surrounding landscape.

Design credits:

Main Architects: Heerim Architects & Planners (Seoul) teamed up with Mooyoung Architects and Engineer (Seoul) and Gensler (Los Angeles)
Structural design and envelope: HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés (Paris)
Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti (New York)
Consultants: IBE Consulting Engineers, Landrum and Brown, Lea+Elliott, Sap Group, BNP Associates
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You can find more details about the competition at Korea JoongAng Daily

image credit: q2xro.blogspot.com
image credit: Garamond Powerline by Daniel Adolph via q2xro.blogspot.com
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A few weeks ago there was a real buzz around electric pylons, their design and their future relationship with the landscape. On twitter, @ballardian, @ethel_baraona were tweeting links, contents and ideas about this topic and at the same time Hugh Dutton sent me this link and Dezeen was asking for high-resolution images for a publication of Pylons of the future – Dancing with Nature -, a project that we are building in Italy for Terna company (images below).

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have launched a competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK: organised in collaboration with the Department of Energy and Climate Change and National Grid, the competition is open to architects, designers, engineers and students.
_ via dezeen.com

_competition website www.ribapylondesign.com

You can also find more information on the competition website or download the Pylons competition Brief (78).

Guardian.co.uk has recently published the article Pylon competition seeks alternative to ‘industrial soldiers’ mentioning our pylon design:
A Paris-based British designer, Hugh Dutton, won a competition for the Italian energy company Terna with slender Y-shaped pylons inspired by the first tender shoots of a young plant. The first prototypes are set to go into production soon. He said creating a more positive image for pylons to try to head off local opposition was a key concern for clients, but added that his more elegant design was more expensive.

“Traditional pylons are the very symbol of insensitive intervention of mankind on the landscape,” he said. “These industrial soldiers that march across the countryside, galvanised steel trellis towers, are certainly optimal and efficient structures, but lack poetry.”

If you want more information about Pylons of the Future – Dancing with Nature - you can read this related post or download below the official press release.

Hda 100121 Pylons Press-kit
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Other interesting links:
+ “Could pylons ever be pretty?” via BBC
+ Pylons on dezeen.com
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Terna, the client of our Pylons of the Future – Dancing with Nature -, is a leading energy transmission grid operator, the first independent operator in Europe and the seventh in the world for kilometers of lines managed, with over 63,000 km of HV lines throughout the Italian territory.
The inspiring philosophy of the contest ‘Pylons of the future’ was to combine innovation, technology, design and environmental respect for sustainably developing the transmission grid. The idea of the contest is part of the sustainable development strategy pursued by Terna that is based on planning and developing the electricity grid to meet the needs of the electricity system while also protecting the environment and respecting the territory.