The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a branch of the Pompidou arts center in Paris located in Metz, France. The building was designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and features a unique hexagonal wooden lattice roof structure inspired by Chinese hats. The roof structure provides diffused natural light to the galleries and interior spaces below. The Centre Pompidou-Metz aims to bring contemporary art exhibitions from the Pompidou collection to Metz and provide a space for artistic events.

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Centre Pompidou,
Metz
BY:
AMIT SINGH 10110003
DHRUV BANSAL 10110014
MADHAV SINGH 10110031
By:Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines
Focus:structural system

2. Shigeru Ban
(born 1957) is an
accomplished Japanese and
international architect, most
famous for his innovative work with
paper, particularly
recycled cardboard paper tubes
used to quickly and efficiently
house disaster victims.
Jean de Gastines
Assisted the main architect
Worked with Frank O Gehry

3. About the Project
• Project Type: Modrern Contemporary Art
Museum
• Location:Metz, France
• Construction started:November 7, 2006
• Inaugurated:May 12, 2010
• Cost:69.33 million Euros
• Height:77 m (253 ft)
• Floor area:10,660 m2 (114,700 sq ft)
• Architecture firm:Shigeru Ban Architects Europe
• Main contractor:Metz Métropole

4. ` THE SITE:METZ,FRANCE

5. About the Project
• The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a branch of
Pompidou arts center of Paris, and features
temporary exhibitions from the large collection
of the French National Museum of Modern Art,
the largest
• European collection of 20th and 21st century
arts.
• The museum is one of the largest temporary
exhibition spaces in France with 5,000 m2 divided
between 3 galleries, a circular shaped restaurant,
a theatre, and an auditorium.

6. Concept
CHINESE HAT

7. The 3 Boxes
• 3 galleries extrude out of the building envelope and
face towards the three landmarks of the city.(railway
station and cathedral)
• He rotated the boxes
So that natual light
comes directly in each
box.
• Long narrow plan has
been inspired from
NAVE of Metz cathedral

8. 01. forum
02. Bookshop
03. Ticketing and cloakroom
04. Grande Nef
05. hexagonal tower
06. coffee
07. studio (196 seats)
08. restaurant
09. Auditorium(144 seats)
10. Gallery 1
11. Gallery 2
12. Gallery 3
Total surface area: 10,700 sq m
Gallery space: 5,000 sq m

10. Laminated wooden
hexagonal
latticework roof
structure that “houses”
the museum and wraps
around the
building.
•three rectangular galleries weaving
through the building at different
Levels
•5 five effective spines

11. a unique experience
• a place for visitors to engage with artistic
creation in all its forms
• It is a living venue with events scheduled
throughout the year.

12. THE ROOF STRUCTURE
• The roof is a 90 meters wide hexagon with a surface
area of 8,500 m².
• The roof structure is composed of 16 km of glued
laminated timber.
• Form hexagonal wooden units resembling the cane-work
pattern of a Chinese hat.
• The roof’s geometry is irregular.
• The entire wooden structure is covered with a white
PTFE membrane and a coating of Teflon, which has the
distinction of being self-cleaning, protects from direct
sunlight and also is transparent at night, thus offering
viewers a spectacular and unique overview.

13. Why Wood ? …”because it is an inexhaustible and bio degradable material.”

14. • 95% of the roof timbers
are made from Austrian
or Swiss spruce; the
remainder are beech
and larch.
• Every single beam was
CNCmachined to
unique proportions.

15. 4 Layered hexagonal lattice

16. Interlacing

21. Joinery details of beams

22. Joinery details
•Steel pipe is put at the periphery
of structure.
•It creates tension in PTFE layer

23. wo

25. TENSILE MEMBRANE
The moisture-resistant
membrane of fiberglass and
Teflon (PTFE or Poly-Tetra-
Fluoro Ethylene) is stretched
over the lattice structure .

28. PTFE:
Self cleaning
Transmit light
Provide diffused light

29. MATERIALS
• 12,000 m3 of concrete
(foundations and structure)
• 1,500 tons of reinforcing bars
• 970 tons of structural steel
(walls and hexagonal tower)
• 650 tons of roof timber
• 18 km of beams and 16,000 pieces to build the
wooden roof structure
• 8,000 sq m of PTFE membrane

30. Criticism
• The most ironic part of the design is its key
feature, the roof.
• Is it a tent?
• Is it a dome?
• Is it a frame?

31. Criticism
• Concept is vague. He completely discards the
theory of iconography.(traditionally attached
to a theme of the region)
• Internal circulation is disjoint
• Roof becomes ponderous.
• Though the structure is pleasing, but it is very
difficult to execute.

32. conclusion
• If something looks pleasing,it need not to
have iconography

33. THANK YOU