Max Weber Building
MAX WEBER BUILDING
Atelier Pascal Gontier
LOCATION
Nanterre, France
CLIENT
Université Paris Nanterre
MANUFACTURERS
Arcelor Mittal, Bieber, KLH
CONTRACTOR
Atelier Pascal Gontier, Architect
HQE CONSULTANT TO CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
SLH engineering
PHOTOGRAPHS
Schnepp Renou, Hervé Abbadie
AGENT OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
Icade Promotion
TECHNICAL STUDIES
Paule Green, Batiserf, Inex, Cabinet MIT, J.P. Lamoureux
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Pascal Gontier
Text description provided by architect.
The Max Weber building stands inside the vast Université de Paris Nanterre campus with its various concrete and metal buildings comprising a collection testifying to the history of French university architecture built since the 1960s.
Located along the path running along the west side of the University campus, the site is adjacent to its entrance.
The program required by the Université de Paris Nanterre grouping the various Social and Humane Sciences research laboratories in the same building.
The design of the Max Weber building benefitted from the start from ambitious environmental goals and an in-depth questioning of the very nature of the offices that would be provided here to researchers and with the aim of proposing new architectural avenues of exploration.
