Glass construction with curved skylights and mirror-like glass kaleidoscopes
Project
As part of the renovation of the former prefecture on Boulevard Morland in Paris, a new two-storey, fully glazed addition will be constructed atop the existing building. This space will house a restaurant within a kaleidoscope-like art installation. The 16th-floor façade features large SG-bonded IGUs with variable ceramic frit and reflective mirror-coating, supported on two sides. The ceiling is composed of “kaleidoscope” modules, with suspended mirror-glass sheets that disorient and blur the boundaries between the interior and exterior. Each of the 32 modules is covered by a 2x2m double-curved insulating glass unit.
Project data
Client Société Parisienne du Nouvel Arsenal
Architect David Chipperfield Architects, Studio Other Spaces
Project data
Facade surface 950 m² (glass surfaces facade and roof)
Height 8 m (both floors together 15th+16th)
Services structural engineering, special structures
