Paris, France Piano+Rogers Description Centre Pompidou is a museum and cultural center in cen­tral Paris situated on a five acre plaza between the Louvre and Notre Dame. This location, known as Plateau Beaubourg, gave the complex its original name, “Centre Beaubourg.” In relation to modern buildings, it is just east of I. M. Pei’s Pyramid […]

A pproaching the various aspects of integration from the perspective of High Tech architecture entails a look at design beyond the building use “types” as discussed in the case studies of the five previous chapters. Although High Tech design is often associated with a par­ticular range of open-plan building types, it is clearly not restricted […]

Physical • Most of the system-to-system interfaces in this proj­ect are put together to achieve performance levels of integration, but it seems that the structure is physical­ly meshed with other systems as a consequence. Daylight and air flow to the basement between beams; the interior planning module is based on the struc­tural bay; solar heating […]

Inherent Programmatic challenges for this project seem to have been centered on how to provide glazed solar access and airy ventilated spaces without sacrificing interior privacy. The predominantly glass skin was one antagonizing factor. The need to provide two separate homes within the same see-through building scheme was another. Contextual Most of Herzog’s residential-scale work […]

Pullach, Germany Herzog + Partners Description Despite its High-Tech look of glass on laminated wood frame with steel tie cross bracing, this house has its beginnings in the traditional Alpine timber frame barn. Like its vernacular precedent, the Pullach house starts with an elegantly small substructure and cantilevers out­ward, like Eames House, at each successive […]