Mont - Cenis

Architect :
Jourda & Perraudin Architects . Paris

Client : 
Mont - Cenis Property Development

Construction Consultant : 
Arup Gmbh, Dusseldorf

Installation engineering consultant :
Schlaich Bergemann + Partners

Building Physics Consultant : 
HL Technik AG, Frankfurt am Main

Design Competition : 
1992 - 1999

Gross Floor Area :
11,690,50 sq.m

Herne - Sordingen lies in the centre of the Ruhr. The training centre was built on the site of a former coalmine, Mont Cenis, and is one of the prominent architectural features of the IBA-Emscherpark project. The French architect Jourda settled for a box within a box principle : all accommodations are under a glass cover.

Management of the interior environment takes more or less the same form as in the buildings with double-skinned facades. In summer, warm stale air rises and escapes through openings in the roof. This out flowing airstreams produces under pressure in the glazed hall, so that fresh, cool air is drawn in through louvers in the side walls. Shade-giving,'perspiring' plants and evaporating pools combine to lower the internal temperature.

Besides, solar cells were integrated into the facade and roof glazing in a special pattern that provides sufficient shading from solar radiation but still admits sufficient daylight.

Web Links:
- Mont-Cenis Academy, Herne Sodingen [IEA PVPS Case Studies]

| Created: 13 Aug 2001 | Update: 14Aug2001 | By: cmhui@hku.hk |