Business Center Euroairport
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Architect's statement
How could one create a space for rest and work in the middle of a busy international airport? Serero Architects have created a sleek and functional business center at the Airport of Bale/Mulhouse in Switzerland by hanging a deck to the astonishing steel branches of the terminal.
Ten work and reception halls integrating video conferencing abilities and interactive presentation pads have been organized on the length of the platform in an efficient manner.This new center reinforce the strategic positioning of this airport, precisely located at the border between France and Switzerland by allowing physical meetings in transit zones, interactively with remote users using VC Technology
"The challenge of the project, explains the architect David Serero, is to integrate this new platform to the complex geometry of the airport structure in keeping the natural lighting and transparency of the existing airport atrium. Our project uses a light and high performance structure to keep the platform height at thin as possible and respecting the sismical regulations of this particular site."
The BC platform is placed in the terminal by following the logic of reciprocal setbacks of the airport slabs on the atrium. The access has been staged by a long suspended bridge that crosses the airport atrium from the existing vertical circulations cores. A peripheral access balcony, opened to the atrium, gives access to each meeting space. In order to avoid normalize work environment, the architects have designed and furnished each space in a singular manner by changing their floor area size and form. The underside of the slab is covered by a polished stainless steel ceiling, reflecting natural light as well as the airplanes on the airport runways behind.
Transparency / Lighting
The partitioning of the Business center are treated in different nature of glass including: transparent glass, sandblasted glass, colored glass and liquid crystal glass in function of the light and intimacy level demanded by users. It is therefore a full transparent volume that’s diffracts light to the airport’s main atrium.
The BC is both visible from the airport main floor as well as in setback from the intensive flux of the airport. The level of activity, as well as the event type is transmitted trough a lighting device constituted by thin light strips of tri-color LEDs. The level of lighting, as well as the color of each of these strip is electronically controllable and will change depending on specific event, its activity level, or the business of its rooms.
Competition First Prize Winner
- Project: Business Center Euroairport (Construction of the business center in the air terminal of the Euroairport)
- Design Team: David Serero, Fabrice Zaini, Engineers: OTE
- Site: Aéroport Bâle - Mulhouse, France
- Client: Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Sud Alsace Mulhouse
- Area: 680 m2
Business Center Euroairport was submitted by Serero Architectes and was last updated on May 18, 2010. You can learn more about Serero Architectes by visiting this website.