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AgroParisTech — Saclay Campus

AgroParisTech, an agricultural higher education and research establishment, has grouped its activities in the heart of the Saclay plateau, a scientific cluster.

Designed in collaboration with Marc Mimram Architecture & associés, this campus is composed of eight distinct buildings around a 2-hectare park: an entrance building, the Forum, five teaching and administration buildings and two large buildings that accommodate laboratories meeting international standards.

Our mission was to design the research laboratory buildings (L1 / L2 / L3 laboratories with S1 greenhouses and C3 climatic chambers) as well as an underground car park.

The research buildings offer large, scalable “platforms” with the aim of providing rationality of use and functionality. These modular research platforms make it possible to integrate variations in the organisation of the entities of each research axis, attenuating the partitions between the fields in a holistic vision of research.

Client : CAMPUS AGROS SAS

Location : Palaiseau, France

Surface : 37 600 m²

Status : Delivery

Date : 2022

Key points

Laboratories L1, L2, L3.
Greenhouses S1.
Evolving platforms.

Performance environnementale

HQE Tertiary Sector Building Certification - excellent ranking
Effinergie +
CEP RT2012 Label - 30%
30-year energy commitment based on STD calculations.

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A hybrid and shared identity within the campus.

AgroParisTech-INRA combines distinct pavilions and buildings, whose volumes express their specific functions in a coherent whole. The symbolism of the rhythms, repetitions and alliterations of the facades asserts the shared identity of the AgroParisTech-INRA Campus: uniqueness is expressed here through compact brick volumes, with large openings onto the landscape, illustrating openness to others, to the world.

The volume of the research buildings thus resembles vast monoliths anchored to the ground, pierced by large loggias open onto the panorama, allowing abundant light to penetrate to the patios, to the research centre. The rhythm of the office and research facades is based on the 1.50 m module with a sub-multiple allowing partitioning into 10 mm², 15 mm², 23 mm², 30 mm², 40 mm² and 50 mm² offices.