Exhibition and Convention Center MEETT, Toulouse (in project)
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture- Typologies Landscape architecture / Urban planning Culture / Leisure Park
- Date 2011
- City Toulouse
- Country France
The new Parc des Expositions of Toulouse, known as PEX, sits on a 60-hectare site of agricultural land at the edge of the city, near an international airport and one of the largest and economically important Airbus factories. This area on the outskirts is characterized by sprawling developments and landscape fragmented by highways and train tracks. The project counteracts this reality with a compact and multifunctional building, dense and filled with flexible spaces. As large-scale strategy, a service axis of almost three kilometers joins the Airbus factory with the River Garonne, connecting the space with the surroundings and marking a strip for future developments. The building, 660 meters long and 316 wide, is divided into three parallel bars of program.
The central one is dedicated to communications, with a six-story parking block and paths of access to the exhibition halls to the south and outdoor exhibition and event hall to the north. The structure of the complex is a three-dimensional grid that extends to include the facade and the roof, an unencumbered space that provides a plug-in system for services and for exhibitors in the exhibition hall.
Cliente Client
Europolia
Arquitecto Architect
OMA / Chris van Duijn, Ellen van Loon, Rem Koolhaas (socios partners); Gilles Guyot (project manager); François Riollot (contract manager)
Concurso Competition
Sara Bilge, Clément Blanchet, Sandra Bsat, Savinien Caracostea-Balan, Marek Chytil, Kaveh Dabiri, Lionel Debs, Daniel Dobson, Marcela Ferreira, Nathan Friedman, Didzis Jaunzems, Anthony Joyeux, Matthew Jull, Filippo Nanni, François Riollot, Elina Spruza, Wes Thomas, Haohao Zhu (equipo team)
Desarrollo de proyecto Design Development
Clément Blanchet, Marcus Franck, Gilles Guyot Polly (jefes de proyecto project leaders); Auyeung, Henri Bardsley, Sara Bilge, Lourdes Carretero Botran, Eugenio Cardoso, Francois Ducatez, Katerina Examiliotou, Peter Feldmann, Olivia Fontanetti, Michalis Hadjistyllis, Chris Hayman, Kyung Su Jung, Eunjin Kang, Laurence Lumley, Lawrence-Olivier Mahadoo, Jamies Oliver, Chong Ying Pai, Emmanouil Rentopoulos, Erik Revelle, Maria Aller Rey, François Riollot, Thomas Shadbolt, Lukasz Skalec, Saul Smeding (equipo team)
Construcción Construction
Gilles Guyot Polly (jefe de proyecto project leader);Anton Anikeev, Adrian Auth, Juhwa Baek, Denis Bondar, Kimiko Bonneau, Lourdes Carretero Botran, Solène de Bouteiller, Axel Burvall, Clara Cahez, Jorge Campos, My-Linh Dinh, Francois Ducatez, Camille Filbien, Stavros Gargaretas, Matiss Groskaufmanis, Michalis Hadjistyllis, Chris Hayman, Alexander Joksimovic, Eunjin Kang, Henri Kapynen, Agnieszka Kwiecien, Nicolas Lee, Pierre, Levesque, Elida Mosquera Martinez, Sara Martinez, Thibault Nugue, Pawel Panfiluk, Clement Perisse, Jerome Picard, Victor Pricop, François Riollot, Mario Rodriguez, Jan de Ruyver, Claudio Saccucci, Michael Shafir, Hélène Sicsic, Jorge Simelio, Lukasz Skalec, Adrian Subagyo, Nicola Vitale (equipo team)
Colaboradores Collaborators
Ingerop (ingeniería engineering); PPA Architectures \ Taillandier Architectes Associés (arquitecto local local architect); Batlle i Roig (paisajismo landscaping); Arcora (fachada facade); 8’18’’ (iluminación lighting); DAL (costes cost); Royal Haskoning DHV (acústica acoustics); Ducks Scéno (escenografía scenography); Abilis (ergonomía ergonomy); Soconer (sostenibilidad sustainability); BASE design (señalética signage)
