Archinect - News 2024-11-21T18:21:59-05:00 https://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 Tokmakova 2017-08-31T14:58:00-04:00 >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&rsquo;s first scientific building&mdash;laboratory and engineering school, Lab City CentraleSup&eacute;lec in Paris Saclay,&nbsp;has been completed and will open to students this September.&nbsp;<br></p> <p>The university, which is now one of the most prestigious French&nbsp;grandes &eacute;coles specialized in engineering,&nbsp;was formed in 2015 by&nbsp;a&nbsp;merger between Ecole Centrale Paris and Sup&eacute;lec. CentraleSup&eacute;lec's&nbsp;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&mdash;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,&nbsp;their roof terraces provide open workspaces for students and views to the heart of the structure.&nbsp;</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>