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Jacob McFarlane

Summary: Jacob + MacFarlane Restaurant Georges Centre Pompidou Paris France We wanted to create an architecture that records the dynamic of program and actuality Jacob + MacFarlane The floor surface skin made of aluminum a material which when brushed both absorbs and reflects light reinforces the notion of background appearing and disappearing The series of volumes kitchen bar bathrooms and a VIP room are slid beneath the skin that acted as a stretchable surface absorbing all the programmatic changes and when finalized became frozen in the form of four grotto like shapes Inside the volumes the aluminum walls are coated in bright yellow red green and orange rubber The architects also worked from the principle that all fluids arrive via the ceiling of the museum and then descend into the four volumes each volume having its own system of air water electricity becoming a life support of sort This creates a dialogue with the earlier ideas of flexibility inherent in the building system The steel framed tables with battery operated lights and chairs are aligned with the overall grid blurring the distinction between the interior and the exterior terrace The terrace platform is raised 70 centimeter above the floor level creating a sea of furniture Client SNC Costes Centre Georges Pompidou Program A restaurant with room for 250 a reception room kitchens and bathrooms Design 1999 Construction 1999 2000 Interior Area 900 square meters Terrace 450 square meters Engineers RFR Enginieurs Economy Forgue economie Acoustics Jean Paul Lamoureux Inex Fluides Electricity Plumbing Setec Contractor MAG France Cristal Cappellini mobiliers I Guzzini luminaires CPLC rubber IDFP plaster work Texaa Jacob + MacFarlane Restaurant Georges Centre Pompidou Paris France We wanted to create an architecture that records the dynamic of program and actuality Jacob + MacFarlane The floor surface skin made of aluminum a material which when brushed both absorbs and reflects light reinforces the notion of background appearing and disappearing The series of volumes kitchen bar bathrooms and a VIP room are slid beneath the skin that acted as a stretchable surface absorbing all the programmatic changes and when finalized became frozen in the form of four grotto like shapes Inside the volumes the aluminum walls are coated in bright yellow red green and orange rubber The architects also worked from the principle that all fluids arrive via the ceiling of the museum and then descend into the four volumes each volume having its own system of air water electricity becoming a life support of sort This creates a dialogue with the earlier ideas of flexibility inherent in the building system The steel framed tables with battery operated lights and chairs are aligned with the overall grid blurring the distinction between the interior and the exterior terrace The terrace platform is raised 70 centimeter above the floor level creating a sea of furniture Client SNC Costes Centre Georges Pompidou Program A restaurant with room for 250 a reception room kitchens and bathrooms Design 1999 Construction 1999 2000 Interior Area 900 square meters Terrace 450 square meters Engineers RFR Enginieurs Economy Forgue economie Acoustics Jean Paul Lamoureux Inex Fluides Electricity Plumbing Setec Contractor MAG France Cristal Cappellini mobiliers I Guzzini luminaires CPLC rubber IDFP plaster work Texaa

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