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iginEmailComment Inventively designed by Christophe Valtin in collaboration with + 36, the temporary installation titled Refuge is a translucent structure that aims to explore the notion of shelter and protection. Built in Paris, the installation is constructed using a steel framework and is covered in a semi-opaque mesh fabric. Its semi-transparent form allows light to permeate through, creating a soft glow that illuminates the entire structure. The fabric also provides privacy, as it blurs the view from the outside. The main idea behind Refuge is to create a space that offers physical and metaphorical refuge. It is a place where people can seek solace from the chaos of daily life and find a moment of tranquility. The structure invites visitors to step inside and experience a sense of calm and peacefulness. Inside, the installation features a minimalist design, with clean lines and simple furniture. The space is intentionally left empty, allowing visitors to project their own emotions and thoughts onto the blank canvas. It acts as a blank slate, ready to be filled with the visitor’s own memories and experiences. The translucent nature of the installation also plays with the concept of boundaries and borders. It blurs the line between inside and outside, creating a seamless transition from the exterior world into the interior space. This allows visitors to feel connected to their surroundings while still being protected and sheltered. Refuge is a temporary installation that challenges traditional notions of shelter and refuge. It offers a unique and innovative approach to creating a space for solace and contemplation. Through its translucent design and minimalistic interior, it invites visitors to find a moment of peace within the chaos of everyday life.
© Christophe Valtin Text description provided by the architects. Situated on the Plateau de Saclay, a science cluster of international renown, the new Research & Innovation Centre of the Danone Group, certified as a low-carbon building, optimizes the quality of working life and permits the development, testing, and cultivation of future innovations. Save this picture!
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© Christophe ValtinArchitecturally, In’Cube embodies the singular meeting of two visions, that of the Danone group, committed at the international level to innovation, health through food, environmental sustainability, and the search for the best qualitý of life and work; and that of the office Arte Charpentier has been able to spatialize this vision by integrating an advanced reflection on technical and regulatory aspects, on the hybridization of structures, the sustainability of materials, the reuse channel and the circular economy to produce an eco-responsible and creative architecture.Save this picture!
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Plan - Ground floorThis new Research & Innovation center houses Danone’s world-class teams in life sciences, nutrition, consumer experience, pilots, and product design - more than 600 people - with the ambition of driving tomorrow’s food revolution, fostering collaborations with food tech startups and accelerating innovation with consumers and partners around food and health.Save this picture!
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© Christophe ValtinIn’Cube is entirely designed to facilitate and develop new methods and ways of working at the heart of R&I. In’Cube is in symbiosis with its ecosystem of suppliers, start-ups, and consumers and addresses the challenges of food with the world-class university environment in which it is located on the Paris-Saclay campus.Save this picture!
© Christophe ValtinThe architecture of the building provides transparency from the public space and allows the whole industrial process, the micro-factory, and the activities that take place there to be discovered. Standing 24 m high, In’Cube fits perfectly into its rectangular base of 90m long and 75 m wide, its particularitý lies in its U shape deployed around a luminous Plaza topped with a shed roof providing zenithal lighting and where wood is omnipresent.Save this picture!
© Christophe ValtinThe overhanging plaza space offers exceptional views with its panoramic views of the surrounding landscape This central atrium promotes meetings and takes up the codes of a village square, which comes to punctuate the life of the community around different events, vertical circulations, and corridors surrounding and animate its volume and distribute the different premises.Save this picture!
© Christophe ValtinGiven the natural environment of the Saclay campus, green spaces are another fundamental element of the In’Cube project, whose landscape design combines both open-ground landscapes and landscaped garden terraces. The landscape project resonates with this territory characterized by a historical hydraulic network, which is the foundation of the urban fabric of the new district. In In’Cube, water is valued from the roof to the ground, and the rain garden, in the open ground, manages rainwater before discharge into the neighborhood’s ditches.Save this picture!
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Section - Raingarden Plants are at the heart of the project, with 2,900m² of vegetation, including a 1,100m² garden terrace with an orchard and, above all, a 1,000m² garden in the open air, a real relaxation area for employees, and also a storage garden for rainwater.
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