HOAX OR NOT ? "Le studio Architects Serero a remporté un compétition pour temporairement remodeler le haut de la tour Eiffel (Article source via The Guardian). La proposition gagnante, nommée Eiffeil DNA, consiste en l'installation d'une plateforme de kevlar au sommet de la tour, doublant ainsi la surface panoramique utile. Le design a été crée par l'usage d'un ordinateur générant des scripts à partir de la structure existante de l'édifice, le faisant "grandir" en dupliquant son ADN orginel. La compétition a été organisée par la Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel pour en célébrer le 120ème anniversaire (1889 - 2009)."





Official info from Serero’s website - “… the authentic laws of the energy are not always conformal with the secret laws of the harmony…” Gustave Eiffel. The Eiffel tower in Paris suffers from its success. Since its creation the amount of visitors coming to reach its top has increased to reach its limit capacity. 6.5 millions People wait between 35 minutes to 1H10 to reach the elevators. The floor area of each level decreases with the height because of the tower geometry resulting in very long waiting lines and crowd management problems.





In celebration of the 120th birthday of the tower, the Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel decided to restructure the public reception and access areas of the tower. The proposal of SERERO Architects aims to create a temporary horizontal extension of the third floor of the tower in order to increase the quality of the access of the public as well as experiencing the fantastic 360 degrees sight of Paris.





When Gustave Eiffel designed the tower, he imagined that the tower would become the support of a great variety of scientific devices and experimentations to study gravity and wind pressure. The structure of the tower was therefore designed for increase of its weight. During World War I, the tower was holding antennas to retransmit radio wave to the whole country. Structural simulation of the Eiffel tower indicates that it is a highly hyperstatic structure, which is dimensioned for a weight higher than what it is supporting today.



Client : Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel
Site : Champs de Mars, Paris
Floor area : 589 m2 ( 282m2 at level 3.1 and 589 at level 3.2)
Structure: Carbon Kevlar, steel connectors, and metal mesh
Budget : 1.3 millions euros
Carbon Kevlar density: 240 g/m2
Surface structure : 1434m2 ( level 3.1 = 386 m2, level 3.2 = 674m2, level 3 = 1097 m2)
Weight of structure alone: total = 1 200 Kg
New third floor capacity: 1,700 persons per hour
Design Team : Serero Architects : Antoine Bourdeau, Louisa Gouesnard, Dusanka Malicevic Yoichi Ozawa, Jean-Philippe Sanfourche, David Serero, Taichi Sunayama, Fabrice Zaini
Via Dezeen.

La Tour Phare, La Tour Eiffel temporairement redesignée et bientot la Tour Signal, ça bouge enfin en matière d'architecture à Paris, il était temps ! Cinq architectes, dont le Studio Daniel Libeskind (ci dessus et dessous), Ateliers Jean Nouvel et Foster + Partners, ont été shortlistés pour designer la future Tour Signal à La Défense. Voici les projets retenus.





Ateliers Jean Nouvel





Foster + Partners





Wilmotte et Associés SA





Jacques Ferrier Architectures







Via dezeen.

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