1. JEAN NOUVEL
A FRENCH ARCHITECT
SHREYANK GUJADIYA (58)
PRANAV SUTARIYA (56)
VIVEK BORAD (68)
RAVI YADAV (70)
HARSH CHODVADIYA (2016/36)
HOA-V
CLASS-B
2. JEAN NOUVEL
• Born 12 august 1945
• Began his architectural career in the 1970s.
• Nouvel has broken the aesthetic of
modernism and post-modernism to create a
stylistic language all his own.
• He places enormous importance on
designing a building harmonious with its
surroundings.
• Early in his career, nouvel became a key
participant in intellectual debates about
architecture in France.
• Nouvel doesn't draw, which was once
considered an essential skill in the shaping
of architectural space.
3. PHILOSOPHY
• Jean Nouvel is an architect of contrasts—mass and void, light and dark, traditional and
contemporary.
• It is this embodiment of architectural juxtaposition that makes Nouvel so extraordinary.
• Nouvel's biggest idea is what he calls dematerialization, the interplay of light and
materiality, which gives the impression that materials have vanished.
• Nouvel’s specialty is that he transforms the landscapes and tries to blend them into the built
forms.
• Unique approach, driven by the specificities of context, program, and site has proven
effective in numerous successes around the world.
• His focus into architecture is one that reflects the modernity of our time.
4. ARCHTECTURE CAREER
• Ateliers Jean Nouvel is the internationally based
architecture company founded by French star
architect Jean Nouvel.
• Founded in 1994 together with Michel Pélissié.
• The main office in Paris is one of the largest
architecture firms in France.
• Additional international offices scattered around
architectural important cities in Europe and in
New York.
• Jean Nouvel's architecture aims at being 'a visual
landscape', a colour- and playful architecture.
• His focus into architecture is one that reflects
the modernity of our time.
• New technologies and materials in his designs to
create an architecture that relates to the specific
context - based on a different strategy for each
project every time.
• ACHIEVEMENTS
• Nouvel was awarded the Pritzker prize,
architecture's highest honour, in 2008
• Prestigious prize has been awarded the by aga
khan award for architecture for the institute du
monde arabe in 1989
• The wolf prize in arts in 2005
• Wallpaper design award, best new public house
category for Copenhagen concert hall in 2010
5. NOTABLE PROJECTS
ARAB WORLD INSTIUTE PARIS COPENHAGEN CONCERT HALL GUTHRIE THEATER
PALAIS DE JUSTICE PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS GASOMETER DOHA 9 SKYSCRAPER
7. 100 11th AVENUE (NEW YORK, USA)
• A site like this one encourages optimism.
• To exalt in the light.
• To make a mark in this rich and diverse
neighbourhood by building our own restaurant,
gallery and swimming pool.
• On a curving angle, like that of the eye of an
insect, differently-positioned facets catch all of
the reflections and throw out sparkles.
• The apartments are within the “eye”, splitting up
and reconstructing this complex landscape: one
framing the horizon, another framing the white
curve in the sky and another framing the boats on
the Hudson River and, on the other side, framing
the Midtown skyline.
• The transparencies are in keeping with the
reflections, and the textures of the New York
brickwork contrast with the geometric composition
of the large rectangles of clear glass.
• The architecture is an expression of the pleasure
of being at this strategic point in Manhattan.
8. 40 MERCER (NEW YORK, USA)
• Located at the corner of Mercer, Grand and
Broadway, the residential building at 40 Mercer
was initially designed as a hotel.
• The specificity of the site resides in the fact that
three of its sides are free, a very rare feature in
New York. An obvious plan for the site would have
been to build against the neighbour building, but I
opted to keep the two buildings apart and create a
garden.
• I analysed their proportions, the composition of
the façades and the materials used, with a view to
producing a resolutely contemporary type of
architecture that does not try to be different but
rather seeks to blend in so as to better emphasize
the qualities of its environment.
• The back façade of the building has a regular
pattern of opaque or transparent panels,
reminiscent of the neighbourhood’s brick party-
walls.
• The overall mode of expression here is that of a
woven dark grey metal structure. But the various
parts take on a very different appearance
according to their position within the site.
9. YCONE (LYON, FRANCE)
• Ycone will be bordered by pre-existing buildings in
an urban development that will be part of a world
to come.
• Ycone will provide apartments belonging to
different categories of financing or access to home
ownership.
• It will give the impression that there are buildings
inside the building.
• Ycone will signal that there are two buildings in
one.
• The project will offer low-level apartments more
height and allow for the possibility of two
apartments being sold together – something that
sometimes happens – even if they’re not in the
same category.
• The back façade of the building has a regular
pattern of opaque or transparent panels,
reminiscent of the neighbourhood’s brick party-
walls.
• Designed a façade over two planes and worked on
what happens between the two.
• This gap will be a living space, an in-between
area, what the Japanese call ma.
10. GASOMETER A (VIENNA, AUSRTIA)
• The Vienna gasometers were built between 1896
and 1899 at a time when societies were reluctant
to exhibit freely their industrial infrastructures.
• Thus, all four gasometers were disguised as
buildings by means of enclosures of brick walls
topped by glass domes.
• Considering their imposing silhouettes – about 62
meters inner diameter and 72 meters height – their
arched windows and the detailing of their
construction, one would have wondered which kind
of buildings those might be.
• Designed a façade over two planes and worked on
what happens between the two.
• Nouvel has kept the enclosure intact as a
testimony of its times and designed a series of
segments – 18 at first then 9 built as they were
paired for economy – which house apartments on
14 levels.
• The inner space is clearly the main façade: each
segment has access to outside views through the
windows in the brick wall either directly or across
the inner space between the segments.
11. TOWER 25 (NICOSIA, CYPRUS)
• The iconic tower designed by Jean
Nouvel at the center of Nicosia, next to
Eleftheria Square transforms the city
silhouette of Nicosia.
• The program includes 10-story residential
apartments, a 6-story office space and a
2-story retail area.
• This verticality in relation to the
horizontality of the medieval walls and
the moat that enclose the old part of the
city sets the stage for a series of
inversions that are characteristic of the
building.
• The 67 meter high building will be the
culminating landmark of the city.
• On the south façade a vertical landscape
covers approximately 80% of the
building’s façade area.
• This exceptional living environment is
working like a natural “brise soleil”.
• The plants will act as a natural sun
control shielding the apartments and the
offices from direct sun during summer
while admitting a maximum of sunlight in
winter.
• This “living façade” supports a variety of
Cypriote climbing and spreading plants
and will be continually transformed by
the cyclic movements of the different
seasons.
