GRAND PALAIS EPHEMERE
Designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and installed on the Champ-de-Mars, the Grand Palais Éphémère is a temporary 10,000m2 building supported by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and Paris 2024, and built by the company GL events. It is intended to host major art, fashion and sports events usually held in the Nave during the renovation of the Grand Palais, including Paris Photo, the Saut Hermès and the Chanel fashion shows, then, during the 2024 Olympic Games, judo and wrestling competitions.
A true architectural feat, its curved double-vaulted framework gives the building a typology on the scale of the Champ-de-Mars and fits perfectly into this prestigious site whose history, like that of the Grand Palais, is closely linked to the Universal Exhibitions which have enlivened the esplanade since 1867.
This book puts the building into perspective with this historical heritage as well as with that of ephemeral architecture. But above all, it allows us to discover the behind the scenes of this extraordinary building. What is its genesis? How did the construction work take place? What was the public reception reserved for it?
The book revisits the strong elements of the architecture of the Grand Palais Éphémère: its main nave with an uninterrupted span of 51 m in width and 33 m in depth, its 44 monumental wooden arches assembled on site within three months, its acoustic properties and its ecological virtues. Firmly anchored in our times, it echoes emblematic ephemeral architectural achievements, from Joseph Praxton's Crystal Palace (1851) to the achievements of Richard Buckminster Fuller (United States Pavilion at the 1967 World's Fair), Renzo Piano (IBM Pavilion, 1984), or Shigeru Ban (Japan Pavilion at the 2000 World's Fair), and is part of the new typology of interdisciplinary buildings built in recent years.
A true architectural feat, its curved double-vaulted structure gives the building a typology on the scale of the Champ-de-Mars and fits perfectly into this prestigious site whose history, like that of the Grand Palais, is closely linked to the Universal Exhibitions that have enlivened the esplanade since 1867.
This book puts the building into perspective with this historical heritage as well as with that of the ephemeral architecture. But above all, it allows us to discover the backstage of this extraordinary building. How did it come about? How does the construction work proceed? How was it received by the public?
The book looks back at the key elements of the architecture of the Grand Palais Éphémère: its main nave with an uninterrupted span of 51 m in width and 33 m in depth, its 44 monumental wooden arches assembled on site within three months, its acoustic properties and its ecological virtues. Firmly anchored in our time, it echoes emblematic ephemeral architectural achievements, from Joseph Praxton's Crystal Palace (1851) to the creations of Richard Buckminster Fuller (United States pavilion at the 1967 World's Fair), Renzo Piano (IBM pavilion, 1984), or Shigeru Ban (Japan pavilion at the 2000 World's Fair), and is part of the new typology of interdisciplinary buildings created in recent years.
Publisher: Rmn Editions
Weight: 0.8 kg
Dimensions: 19 x 3 x 27 cm
Language: French