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    Global finalist entry 2015 - Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building

    The building provides very different kinds of spaces, ensuring that indoor as well as outdoor areas may be used for very different purposes.

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    Global finalist entry 2015 - Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building

    The building is conceived as a minimal structure that uses rough materials, robust and long-lasting techniques, and vertical stacking to superimpose different activities above one another.

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    Global finalist entry 2015 - Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building

    The "Public Condeser" is publicly funded and in response to the low construction budget, detailing has been kept to a minimum. This economical approach has allowed for the inclusion of a generous public square, ensuring a planted pedestrian connection with the existing academic buildings next to the site. Construction has started in October 2014, with completion planned for December 2015.

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    Global finalist entry 2015 - Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building

    Construction site: January 26th, 2015. Concrete wall and columns prototype.

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    Global finalist entry 2015 - Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building

    Construction site: January 28th, 2015. First concrete slab poured on site.

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    Global finalist entry 2015 - Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building

    Time slots: Maximizing the opening of the time building.

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    Project entry 2014 Europe – Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building, Paris, France

    South façade on the plaza.

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    Project entry 2014 Europe – Public Condenser: Low-cost flexible university building, Paris, France

    Inside view of the restaurant toward the staircase.

As one of the three main Holcim Awards winners for Europe in 2014, “Public Condenser” automatically qualified as a finalist in the Global Holcim Awards 2015. All 15 finalist project teams were asked to submit an updated and more comprehensive entry that was evaluated by a global jury in March 2015.

Last updated: March 05, 2015 Paris, France

As one of the three main Holcim Awards winners for Europe in 2014, “Public Condenser” automatically qualified as a finalist in the Global Holcim Awards 2015. All 15 finalist project teams were asked to submit an updated and more comprehensive entry that was evaluated by a global jury in March 2015.

View project entry posters - Global Holcim Awards

The results of the global phase of the 4th Holcim Awards competition were announced on April 20, 2015.

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