Renzo Piano is an Italian architect born in 1937. Some of his most notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Kansai International Airport in Japan, The Shard in London, and the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre. Piano is known for his high-tech designs that showcase innovative building materials and forms. His buildings often integrate seamlessly with their natural surroundings through the use of shapes and materials inspired by nature. Piano has received many prestigious awards for his contributions to architecture over his illustrious career.

1. RENZO
PIANO
SUBMITTED BY-
SHRUTI GARG
B.ARCH – 2A

2. INTRODUCTION
 Renzo Piano was born on September 14, 1937 in Genoa (Italy), in the
bosom of a wealthy family of construction companies.
 AR. Piano completed hi degree at the Architectural Association School
in London From 1965 to 1970.
 He worked together with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977, their
most famous joint project, is the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
(1971).
 He also had a long collaboration with the engineer Peter Rice, with
whom he shared a practice between 1977 and 1981.
 In 1981, Piano founded the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which
today employs 150 around 150 people and maintains offices in Paris,
Genoa, and NewYork City.
 Piano's first masterpiece the Pompidou Centre opened in Paris and
Piano achieved international acclaim for his work.

3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
 1989, Royal Gold Medal
 1990, Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordines al Meriton Della Repubblica
Italian
 1990, Kyoto Prize
 1994, Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art
 1995, Erasmus Prize
 1995, Premium Imperial
 1998, Pritzker Architecture Prize
 2002, International Union of Architects Gold Medal.
 2004, Honorary doctorate from Columbia University, NewYork
 2006, Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, Milano
 2008,AIA Gold Medal • 2008, Sonning Prize
 2013, elected to the National Academy of Design in NewYork City
 2017, Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
Pritzker

4. DESIGN
PHILOSOPHY
His architecture is defined as solid
construction made by excellent materials
Take advantage of the topography to the
relationship between the internal spaces
and to the outside.
Renzo Piano designed a building capable
of integrating with nature, in tribute to
one of the most prolific and profound
artists of modern times.
 The different project shows how Renzo
play with different shapes. He clearly
implements that there are 360 degrees,
then why just stick to only one.
Renzo Piano is often called a "High-
Tech" architect because his designs
showcase technological shapes and
materials

5. RENZO PIANO’S WORKS
Some of Ar. Renzo Piano’s works include –
1.CENTRE POMPIDOU (POMPIDOU CENTER)
PARIS,FRANCE.
2.KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, JAPAN
3.THE SHARD, LONDON, U.K
4. ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE, SWITZERLAND
5.JEAN-MARIETJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE
1.
2. 3. 4. 5.

6. CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS,FRANCE.
• Location : Paris, France
• Date : 1972-1976
• Type : Modern Art
• Museum Style : High tech Modern
▪ A Modern art museum constructed by high-tech steel and glass, built on
1976
▪ The largest modern art museum in Europe
▪ Music and acoustics study center
▪ High-tech architecture in which he strives to reveal the building’s inner
workings and technological marvels that typically remain hidden beneath its
surface.

7. CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS,FRANCE.
 Design & Concept
 In 1970 an international architectural competition was launched based on a
program to build a cultural and arts complex in the center of historic Paris
set out by French President Georges Pompidou.
 To maximize internal space, they turned the construction inside-out and
exposed a skeleton of brightly colored tubes for mechanical systems.
 The ducts on the outside of the building are color-coded: blue for air, green
for fluids, yellow for electricity cables and red for movement and flow
(elevators, stairs) and safety (fire extinguishers).
 Inside Out
 The center Pompidou broke the mold with its 'inside out‘ construction: the steel
skeleton from which the floors are suspended dominantly visible from the
outside, together with the giant external escalators, with the color-coded service
ducts exposed on both the inside and out.
 Now that the fact of these appearances is no longer shocking, attention focus on
how they are done.Twenty years, on the escalator remains a phenomenon, and
the plaza continues to thrive, but the exhibition spaces themselves, and the
rather dry, regular block shape of the overall building, are beginning to come
across as almost a little dull.

8. CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS,FRANCE.
▪ Structural Color
▪ One of the distinctive features of the Centre Pompidou is the striking
presence of color.
▪ Four strong colors – blue, red, yellow and green – clothe the structure
and enliven the façade, their use governed by a code laid down by the
architects:
▪ Blue for circulating air (air conditioning)
▪ Yellow for circulating electricity
▪ Green for circulating water
▪ Red for circulating people (escalators and lifts).
▪ High tech. center
▪ It was much criticized for requiring temporary closure for a major
renovation after only twenty years' service, but this is at least mitigated
by the volume of people it has been required to host: over 25,000 per
day, compared with the 5,000 anticipated.
▪ If its massive, brightly colored, maverick form looks less radical today,
that's because of how much its revolutionary hi-tech construction has
been copied and extended.

9. INTERIORVIEWS

10. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

11. KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT , JAPAN
• ARCHITECT : RENZO PAINO
• LOCATION : OSAKA, JAPAN
• DATE : 1994
• TYPE :AIRPORTTERMINAL
• CONSTRUCTION : HIGH TECH STEEL
• GLASS STYLE : HIGH TECH MODERN KANSAI AIRPORT
TERMINAL, JAPAN
▪ Largest man-made island – 22,000,000 cubic meters of
reclaimed land, 4 km X 1km in size.
▪ Final cost of constructing both island and passenger
terminal was $14 billion US dollars.
▪ Longest building in the world – 1.7 kilometers
▪ Hit by the Kobe Earthquake of 1995 and the terminal
sustained no damage.

12. KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT , JAPAN
Diagram of the toroid which is 20 miles in diameter,
however only a very small portion of the toroid is used for
the airport.
GEOMACTARY OF THE AIRPORT BUILDING
The toroid creates a space that is both high in the center
portion and low at the ends in order to have unobstructed
views of all airplanes and the runway from the control
tower.
General structure follows
the form of a wave
Interior wing
CONCEPT AND INSPIRATION

13. KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT , JAPAN
Space
The interior of the main block is divided into four levels to accommodate
the circulation and functions such as check-in for domestic and
international flights, immigrations control, customs, luggage transfers etc.
The roof design was developed from the dynamics of air flow along the
ceiling.The volume of the curved section of the main hall increases towards
the run wayside , providing a sense of direction for the passengers as well as
new exciting spatial experience.
Terminal building
Situated in this unusual geographical context, the 511-hectare island
airport (1.5* 4.37 kilometers) consist of immense and elaborate integrated
circuit.Volumes of the design were simply determined by the dimensions
and spaces required by plane maneuverings on the island.The main terminal
building of Kansai international airport is the aerodynamic profile of a
landing jet.When the competition for Kansai airport was held in 1988, the
project site had still to be created in water.
 The terminal consists of a main block with a long wing-shaped linear
extension (total span 0f 1.7 km)containing the circulation spine for the 41
boarding gates.To ensure that the control tower has complete all-round
visibility, the tips of the “ wing” containing boarding gates dip slightly.

14. INTERIORVIEWS

15. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

16. THE SHARD, LONDON
Location : London, UK
Completion : 2012 AD
Type :Vertical City
• Tallest building in Western Europe.
• 309.6 meters (1,016ft) high.
• 72 habitable floors.
• Design was influenced by the irregular
nature of the site.
▪ The Shard London Bridge is 310 meters (1,017ft) tall.
▪ It has become the tallest building in the EU and the 45th
tallest in the world.
▪ The Shard was designed in 2000 by Renzo Piano.

17. THE SHARD, LONDON
DETAILS
▪ There are 44 lifts, including double-decker lifts.
▪ There are 306 flights of stairs.
▪ The total floor space is 11 hectares (27 acres).
▪ 95% of the construction materials are recycled.
▪ 20% of the steelwork is from recycled sources.
▪ The design was influenced by the irregular nature of the
site.
▪ The building reached its top height on 19 June.
▪ It has 11,000 glass panels.
▪ The area of the glass façade is 56,000 sq. meters (602,779
sq. ft)
▪ Each facet forms a shard, a plane of glass gently inclined
inwards, rising towards the top.
▪ The corners of the development are open, and the shards
do not touch, allowing the building to "breathe".
▪ A further 15 levels will make up the "spire". Six have the
potential to be used, while another nine are exposed to the
elements

18. THE SHARD, LONDON
▪ Design & Concept:
▪ The design was influenced by the irregular nature of the
site.
▪ He designed the Shard as a spire-like sculpture emerging
from the River Thames.
▪ The term "The Shard" came about due to the semblance
of the building to a shard of glass stabbing out of the
ground.
▪ Renzo Piano was intent on creating a design that stood
out against the London skyline without attempting to be
too overbearing or indelicate.
▪ It was designed to use specialized windows with a
specific glazing that reflects light in a distinctive way.
▪ The glaze would reflect different intensities of light in
ways that would change the appearance of the building
during different seasons or times of day.
▪ The Shard was one of the first buildings to incorporate
the new structural standards recommended by the US
National Institute of Standards andTechnology after 9/11.

19. INTERIORVIEWS

20. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

21. ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE, SWITZERLAND
 CONCEPT AND INSPIRATION
 The guiding idea was to he create something more than a
museum.
 Renzo Piano was the lightness of the artist's sense of belonging
and light.
 It was therefore decided to create a place, raise the land, making
land available for a work of art itself.
 As if it were more of a survey done by a knowledgeable farmer,
rather than the result of an architectural methodology.
 So, he designed three hills.Three waves that rise and from the
ground.With different dimensions, the three waves traverse the
ground like a sculpture or the result of the same nature.

22. ZENTRUM PAUL
KLEE,
SWITZERLAND
 Space
 Each has a different function
undulations therein.The first
and larger, a 400-seat
auditorium, and art workshops
for children.
 In the second wave, the middle,
smaller than the first, is the
permanent collection of Paul
Klee, and temporary exhibition
spaces dedicated to
 In the third one, the least of all,
lies the research and
management.

23. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

24. INTERIORVIEWS

25. JEAN-MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE
• FORM
• Its architecture evokes the vernacular Kanak
huts of New Caledonia and still has a very
modern feel.
• It is a community center, and in turn
educational museum.

26. JEAN-MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE
CHARACTERSTICS
•The project design is intended to take advantage of
natural winds coming from the Pacific Ocean.The
exterior is made of wood, wind filter a second layer of
glass shutters that open and close natural ventilation.
•The complex is built entirely of iroko wood very
resistant to moisture and insects.This wood was
imported from Ghana.
•Iroko structure provides a comb-shaped. Evocative of
the cabins and craftsmanship Kanak, the slender ribs of
the structure and the slats that are joined seamlessly
integrated both in the lush landscape and the culture of
its inhabitants.
• The wood siding and stainless steel, is based on the
form of regional huts Kanakas.These structures
resemble traditional structural elements such as
herringbone struts that prevent buckling of long beams.

27. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

28. INTERIORVIEWS

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