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19.11.10 - D2P on the Parisian Rive Gauche |
On November 19th a well-known French luxury label opens the doors of its newest flagship store on the left bank of the river Seine. The Zurich office of designtoproduction played a vital role in planning its interior.
The 2,500 sqm store is located inside the listed "Piscine Lutetia", a former public bath on Rue de Sèvres (6th Arrondissement) that has been carefully renovated and redesigned. The core of the showroom is comprised of three curved pavilions built from crossed timber slats. These free-standing structures, each up to eight meters high, are arranged in the spacious atrium. A staircase with banister following the same design principle connects them to the entry level.
designtoproduction was commissioned by the timber contractor to carry out the detailed fabrication planning for the wooden objects. The complete 3D-modelling included the development of optimization rules for the segmentation of the slats, the precise definition of more than 7,000 individual components and their 4,000 connection points, the "unrolling" of the curved segments into the plane and their optimal arrangement on almost 600 panels of raw material.
One of the project's big challenges was the combination of highest quality requirements with the complex shape of the objects. In order to be able to precisely control the curvature of the slats they were built up in several layers, each accurately pre-cut from thin wooden sheets on a computer-controlled (CNC) mill. Up to three layers were then bent along a shape-defining scaffolding and glued in this position to lock their final form. By shifting the position of the joints, up to ten meter long continuously double curved slats could be assembled from just three meter long segments. Once again, the close teamwork of designtoproduction and timber specialists of Holzbau Amann - well-rehearsed during their cooperation on the Centre Pompidou in Metz and here including the engineers Bollinger+Grohmann - has proven itself. The efficient realization of this ambitious proposal by Parisian interior design practice Rena Dumas beautifully shows the new possibilities of combining the material qualities of wood with computer-aided planning and fabrication methods. Project partners: - Parametric modeling, fabrication planning: designtoproduction, Erlenbach / Zürich
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