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“In all our projects we try to draw trajectories instead of restricting ourselves to a given context.” La verità e nei dettagli. Massimiliano Fuksas

Building

“I don't have a style,I don't want one.I've fought against itmy whole life." Massimiliano Fuksas

This book represents continuity in the work of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas we began with the publication of the previous edition "Building".

An ongoing process that requires platforms that reveal the size and importance of a team of architects with the ability to design and produce international projects with a relevant importance and a unique personality.

“I don't have a style,I don't want one.I've fought against itmy whole life." Massimiliano Fuksas

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RHIKE PARK, MUSIC THEATRE AND EXHIBITION HALLTBILISI, GEORGIA

TBILISI PUBLIC SERVICE HALLTBILISI, GEORGIA

SHENZHEN BAO'AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3BAO'AN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN, GUANGDONG, CHINA

REFURBISHMENT OF THE EX "UNIONE MILITARE" BUILDINGROME, ITALY

NEW NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCEPIERREFITTE SUR SEINE-SANT DENIS, PARIS, FRANCE

BUSINESS GARDEN WARSZAWA HOTELWARSAW, POLAND

GEORGES-FRÊCHE SCHOOL OF HOTEL MANAGEMENTMONTPELLIER, FRANCE

TWIN TOWERSVIENNA, AUSTRIA

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EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTELROME, ITALY

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EUR New Congress CentreROME, ITALY

Tower for Regione Piemonte New HeadquartersTURIN, ITALY

Chengdu Tianfu Cultural and Performance CenterCHENGDU, SICHUAN, CHINA

Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Educational CentreMOSCOW, RUSSIA

CBD Cultural CenterBEIJING, CHINA

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TOWER FOR REGIONE PIEMONTE NEW HEADQUARTERSTURIN, ITALY

EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTELROME, ITALY

RHIKE PARK, MUSIC THEATRE AND EXHIBITION HALLTBILISI, GEORGIA

TBILISI PUBLIC SERVICE HALLTBILISI, GEORGIA

SHENZHEN BAO'AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3BAO'AN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN, GUANGDONG, CHINA

REFURBISHMENT OF THE EX "UNIONE MILITARE" BUILDINGROME, ITALY

NEW NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCEPIERREFITTE SUR SEINE-SANT DENIS, PARIS, FRANCE

GEORGES-FRÊCHE SCHOOL OF HOTEL MANAGEMENTMONTPELLIER, FRANCE

TWIN TOWERSVIENNA, AUSTRIA

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RHIKE PARK, MUSIC THEATRE AND EXHIBITION HALLTBILISI, GEORGIA2010—Ongoing

Area Site Area:10.000 s.q.m.Gross Floor Area: 9.200 s.q.m.Music Theatre: 550 seats – 900 s.q.m.Exhibition Hall: 2.000 s.q.m.

General Contractor Permasteelisa s.p.a.

Engineering Studio Sarti, AI Engineering

Acoustics AI Engineering

MaterialStructure: reinforced concrete and steel.Opaque coating: stainless steel panels.Transparent coating: double gazing.

Client Tbilisi Development Fund

Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas

The project site is located inside the green area called Rhike Park, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The building consists of two different soft shaped elements that are connected as a unique body at the retaining wall.

Every shapes has his own function: The Musical Theatre and the Exhibition Hall. The north part of the building contains the Musical Theatre Hall (566 seats), the foyer and several facilities, together with technical spaces for theatre machinery and various storages.

The Exhibition Hall opens his great entrance with a ramp that brings visitors across jutting floors up to the street level. The Music Theatre Hall, on the contrary, soars from the ground and allows the users staying in the foyer and in the cafeteria to have a view to the river and the skyline of the city. It is a periscope to the city and looks towards the river framing the historic core of the Old Tbilisi.

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TBILISI PUBLIC SERVICE HALLTBILISI, GEORGIA2010—2012

Surface Gross Area:42 000 m²Built Area: 265.000 cubic meterMain hall surface: 4 385 m²“Leaves” surface: 24 800 m²Structural glass (enclosure): 2 390 m²Facade: 11 800 m²Parking Plots: 838 (426 coperti)

Engineering Studio Sarti, AI Engineering

General Contractor Huachuan Georgia Company LTD

Program National Bank of GeorgiaLEPL Civil Registry Agency LEPL National Public Registry Agency Ministry of EnergyCivil and National Registry Agency: 280 public deskPress Room: 290 MQ (150 seats) + Foyer 100 m²Retails and Facilities: 400 m²Terraces: 1860 m²

Material Structure: reinforced concrete and steel“Leaves” structure: tridimensional steel reticular. “Leaves” coating: glass fiber and epodossic resine. Facades: structural glass and cellular glass

Client LEPL Civil Registry Agency – LEPL National Public Registry Agency

Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas

The Tbilisi Public Service Hall is situated in the central area of the city and it overlooks the Kura river.

The building is made up of 7 volumes that contain offices (each volume is made up of 4 floors located on different levels). These volumes are placed around a “central public square”, which is the core of the project, where there is the front office services. Offices are connected to each other by internal footbridges that stretches on different levels.

Volumes and the central public space are towered above by 11 big “petals” that are independent both formally and structurally from the rest of the building. Three of those big petals covers the central space. The petals, different for their geometry and dimension, reaches almost 35 meters and they are supported by a structure of steel pillars with a tree shape, visible, as well as the petals, externally and internally from the building.

Among the petals, that are at different levels, are the glass facades. The main characteristic of these facades is that these have been released completely from the structure of the petals, allowing relative movements between the facade and the spatial network structure of coverage. This decision was taken to prevent that any movement of the cover, mainly due to oscillations for snow loads, wind or thermal expansion, can lead to the crisis of the glass.

The Tbilisi Public Service Hall includes: the National Bank of Georgia, the Minister of Energy, the Civil and National Registry.

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SHENZHEN BAO'AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3BAO'AN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN, GUANGDONG, CHINA2008—2013

Area 500,000 sq.m

Developer Shenzhen Planning Bureau; Shenzhen Airport (Group) Co., Ltd.

Interior Design Fuksas Design: Internet-point, check-in ”Island”, security-check, gates, passport-check areas, shop box, baggage-claim “Islands”, info-point, ventilation trees, signage, commercial desk and washrooms.

General Contractor China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, China Construction Eighth Engineering Division

Structures, Facade, Parametric Design KnippersHelbig Engineering, Stuttgart, NY

Architect of Record BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architectural Design), Beijing

Lighting Consulting Speirs& Major Associates, Edinburgh, London

Steel Contractors China Construction the Third Engineering

Interior Contractor Shenzhen Decoration and Construction Industrial Co.,LtdDecoration Company OF China Construc-tion Engineering 3rd BureauShenzhen Hongtao Decoration Co., LtdShenzhen City Decoration Co., LtdShenzhen Building Decoration Group Co.,Ltd

Signage Company Shanghai Mission Information Technology Co,. Ltd

Advisement Company AirMedia Group Inc.

Luggage System Vanderlande Industries

Airport Electricity Shanghai Hua Yu Electron Engineering Co., LtdFarad Electric Co., LtdShenzhen Hongshi Co., Ltd

Drainage System Beijing TIDELION S&I Rainwater Harvesting Technology Co., Ltd.V

Elevator and Escalator Otis; Kone

Client Shenzhen Airport (Group) Co. Ltd

Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas

The concept of the plan for Terminal 3 of Shenzen Bao’an international airport evokes the image of a manta ray, a fish that breathes and changes its own shape, undergoes variations, turns into a bird to celebrate the emotion and fantasy of a flight.

The structure of T3 - an approximately 1,5-km-long tunnel – seems to be modeled by the wind and is reminiscent of the image of an organic-shaped sculpture. The profile of the roofing is characterized by variations in height alluding to the natural landscape.

The symbolic element of the plan is the internal and external double “skin” honeycomb motif that wraps up the structure. Through its double-layering, the “skin” allows natural light in, thus creating light effects within the internal spaces. The cladding is made of alveolus-shaped metal and glass panels of different size that can be partially opened.

The passengers accede to the terminal from the entrance situated under the large T3 “tail”. The wide terminal bay is characterized by white conical supporting columns rising up to touch the roofing like the inside of a cathedral. On the ground floor, the terminal square allows access to the luggage, departures and arrivals areas as well as coffee houses and restaurants, offices and business facilities. The departures room houses the check-in desks, the airlines info-points and several help-desks.

The double and triple height spaces of the departures room establish a visual connection between the internal levels and create a passage for natural light. After checking in, the national and international passengers’ flows spread out vertically for departures.

The concourse is the airport key-area and is made up of three levels. Each level is dedicated to three independent functions: departures, arrivals and services. Its tubular shape chases the idea of motion. The “cross” is the intersection point where the 3 levels of the concourse are vertically connected to create full-height voids which allow natural light to filter from the highest level down to the waiting room set in the node on level 0.

The honeycomb motif is transferred and replicated on the interior design.

Shop boxes, facing one another, reproduce the alveolus design on a larger scale and recur in different articulations along the concourse.

The interiors designed by Fuksas – placed in the internet-point, check-in, security-check, gates and passport-check areas – have a sober profile and a stainless steel finish that reflects and multiplies the honeycomb motif of the internal “skin”

Sculpture–shaped objects - big stylised white trees - have been designed for air conditioning all along the terminal and the concourse, replicating the planning of amorphous forms inspired by nature. This is also the case for the baggage-claim and info-point “islands”.

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The structure will be built in a strategic area of the historic quarter EUR on a 55,000-square-meter built surface. The design concept is briefly explained by three images: the “Theca”, the “Cloud” and the “blade” of the Hotel.

The “Theca”, longitudinally oriented, is the container, with steel structure and glass double-façade, that encloses the Cloud.

The “Cloud” is the heart of the project. Its constriction into the “box” of the Theca underlines the comparison between a free spatial articulation, without rules, and a geometrically defined shape.

Inside the Cloud there are: an auditorium for 1850 people, snack points and support services to the auditorium. The Cloud is, without any doubt, the distinctive architectural element of the project: the structure in steel ribs, with its extraordinary visual effect, will be covered by a 15,000-square-meter transparent curtain.

The 439-room hotel, the “blade”, is thought as an independent and autonomous structure.

At the underground level of the complex it’s planned a 600-place parking.

The New Congress Centre will be a work of extraordinary artistic value, characterized by innovative logistical solutions and by the choice of technologically advanced materials.

The complex will be highly flexible, able to host congresses, exhibition events, with a capacity that will reach a total of nearly 9,000 seats, divided between the auditorium inside the Cloud, that could accommodate 1,850 people, and large conference rooms totalling 6,500 seats.

The design of the New Congress Centre is distinguished by its eco-friendly approach, that is a group of choices to reduce energy consumption.

There will be a climate control system with variable flow air conditioning, that will allow an optimal use of energy, with respect to the effective crowding of the rooms; on the cover of the Theca there will be photovoltaic elements that will allow a natural production of electricity and the protection of the building from the overheating, through the mitigation of the solar radiation, as well as allowing a significant energetic saving compared to those required to obtain the air-conditioning of the whole volume with traditional systems.

EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTELROME, ITALY1998—ongoing

Interior design Fuksas Design

General Contractor Società Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua SpA

Built Surface 55,000 sq. m.

Engineering Plans: A. I. Engineering, TorinoStructures: Studio Majowiecki; Studio SartiSafety: Studio Sarti

Acoustics XU – Acoustique, ParisA.I. Engineering, Torino

Lighting ConsultingSpeirs & Major Associates

Client E.U.R. S.p.A.

ArchitectsMassimiliano and Doriana Fuksas

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Massimiliano Fuksas was born in 1944 of Lithuanian parents in Rome, where he graduated in Architecture at “La Sapienza” University in 1969.In 1967 he set up his own office in Rome, followed by others in Paris (1989), Vienna, Frankfurt and, most recently Shenzhen, China (2008). In 2010 he was decorated with the Légion d’Honneur by the French President Nicholas Sarkozy. From 1998 to 2000 he was Director of the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics”. He has been a visiting professor at several universities, including the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, the Staadtliche Akademia der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart and Columbia University in New York. Since 2000 he has written the architectural column founded by Bruno Zevi in the weekly magazine L’Espresso.

Doriana O. Mandrelli was born in Rome, where she graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in at “La Sapienza” University in 1979 and graduated in Architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. She has worked with Massimiliano Fuksas since 1985 and has headed Fuksas Design since 1997. In 2013 she was decorated with the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française and in2002 with the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. She was the curator of four special sections of the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics” in 2000: Jean Prouvé, Jean Maneval, the Peace Pavilion and Architecture of Spaces, and the Art Section. She has been a member of the Executive Board of INARCH (Italy’s National Institute of Architecture) and has taught at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome in the Institute of the History of Art in the Humanities Faculty, and in the ITACA Industrial Design Department. From 2014 she writes the Design column in the Italian newspaper «La Repubblica».

Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana O. Mandrelli live and work in Rome and in Paris.

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Photo credits

BUILDING

TBILISIArchivio Fuksas: p. 8, 9

RHIKE PARK, MUSIC THEATRE AND EXHIBITION HALLAll pictures by Archivio Fuksas

TBILISI PUBLIC SERVICE HALLAll pictures by Moreno MaggiExcept for p. 21 by Archivio Fuksas

SHENZHEN BAO’AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3Leonardo Finotti: p. 35, 36, 37, 42, 43, 44, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 70, 71.Archivio Fuksas: p. 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47, 52, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69

REFURBISHMENT OF THE EX “UNIONE MILITARE” BUILDINGAlessandra Chemollo: p. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79Gianni Basso: p. 80, 81, 82, 83

NEW NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCERoland Halbe: p. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95 (down)Marc Paturange: p. 92, 93Philippe Ruault: p. 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101Camilla Pongiglione: p. 94 (down)

BUSINESS GARDEN WARSZAWA HOTELAll pictures by Piotr Krajewski

GEORGES-FRÊCHE SCHOOL OF HOTEL MANAGEMENTRamon Prat: p. 111Sergio Pirrone: p. 112, 113, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127Moreno Maggi: p. 114, 115, 116Archivio Fuksas: p. 124

TWIN TOWERS, VIENNAAngelo Kaunat: p. 129, 130, 135 (down)Katsuaki Furudate: p. 131Andreas Drexler: p. 132, 133Rupert Steiner: p. 135 (up)Alfred Havlicek: p. 134

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EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTELAll pictures by Moreno MaggiExcept for p. 143 by Fabrizio Filosa

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EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTELFrancesco Colarossi: p. 157

TOWER FOR REGIONE PIEMONTE NEW HEADQUARTERSMoreno Maggi: p. 159

CHENGDU TIANFU CULTURAL AND PERFORMANCE CENTREArchivio Fuksas: p. 163

MOSCOW POLYTECHNIC MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL CENTREArchivio Fuksas: p. 170, 171

CBD CULTURAL CENTERArchivio Fuksas: p. 178, 179

Portait on page 255 by Fabio Lovino

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“In all our projects we try to draw trajectories instead of restricting ourselves to a given context.” La verità e nei dettagli. Massimiliano Fuksas