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2008 - 2008

Aviaries in Bois-de-la-Bâtie

Stage
Completed
Location
Geneva
Awarded project
"Prix Acier 2009" - Steel Award SZS - Distinction
"Distinction Romande d'Architecture DRA 2/2010" - Distinction
©Yves André
Contractor
City of Geneva

Architect
group8

Award of contract
Competition

©Yves André
The project

The tree structures of the 2 new aviaries of Bois-de-la-Bâtie reveal both structural effectiveness and poetry in dialogue with the surrounding landscape. According to the structural principles developed by Antonio Gaudi and Frei Otto, each of the sixteen pillars is unique, creating a precise and fragile static balance, cut and assembled in a workshop using numerical control machines.

©group 8

Runner-up "DRA 2/2010"
Runner-up SZS Steel Award "Prix Acier 2009"

©group8
Cost
0.75 M.
©group8