Archinect - News2024-05-07T07:45:28-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150025714/oma-s-first-scientific-building-lab-city-to-open-in-september
OMA's first scientific building, Lab City, to open in September Anastasia Tokmakova2017-08-31T14:58:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/58/58m4wkcjyg9dwrba.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>OMA’s first scientific building—laboratory and engineering school, Lab City CentraleSupélec in Paris Saclay, has been completed and will open to students this September. <br></p>
<p>The university, which is now one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles specialized in engineering, was formed in 2015 by a merger between Ecole Centrale Paris and Supélec. CentraleSupélec's new building is part of a 22ha campus located at the heart of the future district Joliot-Curie, for which OMA has developed the masterplan, placing the university alongside research institutes and major tech companies.<br></p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vw/vwmj4dloo16j0v3c.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vw/vwmj4dloo16j0v3c.jpg?w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photograph by Vitor Oliveira, Courtesy of OMA</figcaption></figure><p>The public areas of the school are treated as urban tissue—streets, terraces and center square are fully day-lit through a large translucent roof. Grided independent blocks house laboratories and classrooms, and as they increase in height, their roof terraces provide open workspaces for students and views to the heart of the structure. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/zi/zivgtzh0xf3lj4i9.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/zi/zivgtzh0xf3lj4i9.jpg?w=514"></a></p></figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6w/6whgd6s6e9743ku5.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6w/6whgd6s6e9743ku5.jpg?w=514"></a><figcaption>Photograph by Philippe Ru...</figcaption></figure>