TATLIN NEWS #45

Light, CoLor and Something about the CaveS | Paris, France | PeriPheriQueS | Jussieu university 16m building | pho- to provided by authors | text by eugenia bahturova The works of French PERIPHERIQUES bureau have always been extremely unusual. And not only works. Take, for example its name, which hoods two different teams sharing a common vision. And even the present design, the com- positional idea of which lies on the bounda- ry of the lines and volumes, smoothness and roughness, shows that architecture is a very complicated field of knowledge. In the con- test of reconstruction of an old modernistic building designed in the early 60th of the 20th century by architect Edward Albert, the main task was to develop new lines of streams of knowledge. It was so important because the building hosts several subdivisions, which study the related fields of biology. When the design of the building was developed for the first time, it was planned to house up to 45 thousand students and researchers in it. When the building owners contacted PERIPHER-

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