ESIEE, France
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Project: Composite roof panels
Location: ESIEE, Cité Descartes, Noisy-le-Grand, France
Client: AXIMA Architect: Dominique Perrault Architecture
Handover: 2008
Rising like a beautiful angular slab in the horizon at Cité Descartes, a higher education and technology hub outside Paris, the ESIEE graduate engineering school has a highly futuristic feel. There is no traditional façade. Instead, a stunning inclined plane reminiscent of a computer keyboard rises from the ground and runs the entire length of the building, covering the common areas of the institute: library, lecture halls and restaurant.
To enable the architect’s ambitions of a unitary exterior – and create the first large-scale structure in France with a fully composite roof – BFG subsidiary NOMA Composites worked to fabricate 2402 FRP roof panels covering a total area of over 9000m2.
With an average thickness of just 3mm, the infusion-moulded panels deliver UV resistance and are fire retardant to the French NFF 16101 standard, with a fire rating of M2 - high performance structural characteristics despite an average weight of just 12kg/m2. Above all, the pure white panels proved essential in communicating the future-focused intent of the building, shaping a new structure at the leading edge of science.
Location: ESIEE, Cité Descartes, Noisy-le-Grand, France
Client: AXIMA Architect: Dominique Perrault Architecture
Handover: 2008
Rising like a beautiful angular slab in the horizon at Cité Descartes, a higher education and technology hub outside Paris, the ESIEE graduate engineering school has a highly futuristic feel. There is no traditional façade. Instead, a stunning inclined plane reminiscent of a computer keyboard rises from the ground and runs the entire length of the building, covering the common areas of the institute: library, lecture halls and restaurant.
To enable the architect’s ambitions of a unitary exterior – and create the first large-scale structure in France with a fully composite roof – BFG subsidiary NOMA Composites worked to fabricate 2402 FRP roof panels covering a total area of over 9000m2.
With an average thickness of just 3mm, the infusion-moulded panels deliver UV resistance and are fire retardant to the French NFF 16101 standard, with a fire rating of M2 - high performance structural characteristics despite an average weight of just 12kg/m2. Above all, the pure white panels proved essential in communicating the future-focused intent of the building, shaping a new structure at the leading edge of science.
