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Pierres Vives Building, Montpellier - PR from Zaha Hadid Architects
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The Pierres Vives buildingof the Department of
Herault in Montpellier, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects is due to start
on site at the end of this year.

The building is a unique combination of three civic institutions - the
archives, the library and the sports department - within a single envelope.

Given the contained programs, the spectacular design is inspired by the
idea of a 'tree of knowledge' as an organizational diagram. The archive
is located at the solid base of the trunk, followed by the slightly more
porous library, with the sports department and its offices on top where
the trunk bifurcates and becomes much lighter. These various parts of
this "cite administrative" share several functions at the heart
of the building, with auditorium and meeting rooms combining in a huge
cantilever canopy above the main entrance. The branches projecting off
the main trunk on ground floor, articulate the entrances into the various
institutions. All the public entrances are located on the western side
of the building; whilst the service entrances for staff and loading bays
are on the eastern side. In this way the tree-trunk analogy is exploited
to organise and articulate the complexity of the overall "cite administrative".

Zaha Hadid consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban
design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts ranging widely
from urban master planning to products, interiors, and furniture.

She is best known for her seminal built works - the Vitra Fire Station
in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany (1993); the Hoenheim Nord Terminus in Strasbourg,
France (2001); the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria (2002); the
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA (2003); the BMW
Central Building in Leipzig, Germany; the Hotel Puerta America interiors
in Madrid, Spain; the Ordrupgaard Museum extension in Copenhagen and the
Phaeno Science Centre in Germany (all 2005).

In 2004 Zaha
Hadid won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture

Zaha Hadids Pierres Vives Building -
Credits:
Client: Département de lHérault
Client representative: Hérault Aménagement
Architectural design: Zaha Hadid
Project architect: Stephane Hof
Pierres Vives Montpellier
: physical / CAD models + Zaha Hadid sketches
For further information of Zaha Hadids Pierres Vives Building, please
contact Roger Howie : +44 207 253 51 47
Montpellier building
architect : Zaha Hadid
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