LMA - Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics, Marseille
The LMA is set into the site in a straightforward manner. It is anchored to the main square by a forecourt that highlights the entrance to the institution. From the forecourt, an earth-coloured wall surrounds the plot. This ensures that the building adapts to the unevenness of the land, and frees up as much ground-level space as possible on the garden level, where the laboratories are housed in a ‘palm grove’. The white, ordered volumes of the laboratories emerge from the enclosing wall. Lastly, the office canopy dominates the whole. The LMA building combines three main entities. A head-project, an independent area that can be used by the public. A ‘palm grove’ that hosts the laboratories on the garden level. A climatic canopy hosting the office complex spread over three levels.
Saint-Gobain AMO Award 2016.
Team
Director
Project leader
Jean Cataix, Vivien Pillot
Team
Julien Richard, Corinne Thibault
Quantity surveying
Mathias Bacconnier