- Hôpital, ZAC des Cévennes, Paris [6]
- Maison individuelle [2]
- Nappe Sci Arc [1]
- Sans Titre - Inventaire 10 [Toit alu ondulé] [3]
- Réaménagement de la maison de Claude Parent, Neuilly-sur-Seine [95]
- Maison Champommier [1]
- Projets spatiodynamiques [25]
- Maison Soultrait, Domont [5]
- Théâtre Circulaire Mobile [1]
- Centre commercial La Chataigneraie, Celle-Saint-Cloud [6]
- Maison de l'Iran (Fondation Avicenne), Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris [41]
- Supérette La Folie, Nanterre [1]
- Centre commercial, Athis-Mons [2]
- Maison André Bloc, Cap d'Antibes [34]
- Les Villes cônes [7]
- Maison Mannoni, Créteil [18]
- Maison Sockeel [6]
- Voitures de ville [1]
- Maison Drusch, Versailles [26]
- Mémorial Yves Klein [8]
- Centre commercial, Ris-Orangis [16]
- Centre commercial, Sens [9]
- Centre commercial, Tinqueux [12]
- Maison Toueg, Gif-sur-Yvette [14]
- Gare d'Austerlitz, Paris [12]
- Les ponts urbains [2]
- Maison Illès, Cap d'Antibes [23]
- Théâtre oblique [7]
- Eglise Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay, Nevers [13]
- Immeuble de bureaux, Libreville [1]
- Réaménagement de la maison de Nicole Parent, Neuilly-sur-Seine [71]
- Carré Silvia Monfort, Parc Georges Brassens, Paris [52]
- Etudes pour centrale nucléaire [193]
- Gare centrale de La Part-Dieu, Lyon [19]
- Programme Architecture Nouvelle, Inclipan [10]
- Centrale nucléaire, Cattenom [47]
- Centrale nucléaire, Dannes [12]
- Praticable, Caen [1]
- CES, La Ciotat [6]
- Tours, La Défense [6]
- Cité judiciaire, Dijon [12]
- Dessins pour la revue "Architecture" [4]
- Grotte de Clamouse, Hérault [14]
- Hôtel des Finances, Fort-de-France [40]
- Immeuble DOM, Allemagne [8]
- Trièdre des prières, centre spirituel, Israël [50]
- Immeuble du SEPTEN, Lyon-Villeurbanne [74]
- Centrale nucléaire, Chooz [28]
- Divers projets de mobilier [19]
- Prison, Epinal [52]
- Concours Quai Branly, Centre international de conférences [14]
- Habitat 88 [10]
- Immeuble de bureaux Consultant +, Nîmes [9]
- Nombril de la France, Bruère-Allichant [32]
- Mausolée des enfants [23]
- CES Vincent d'Indy, Paris [32]
- Maison hélicoïdale [7]
- Maison, Piriac [10]
- Stand Le Moniteur, Paris [56]
- Z.A.C. Gare Montparnasse [6]
- Divers [343]
- Hôtel du département, Strasbourg [22]
- Musée de l'orchidée [25]
- Hôtel de Région, Marseille [31]
- Hôtel du Trésor, Mulhouse [45]
- Lycée, Avignon [12]
- Lycée, Saint-Jean-de-Braye [6]
- Maison Champy, Porto-Vecchio [7]
- Nouvelle préfecture, Paris [21]
- Espace culturel, Brive-la-Gaillarde [45]
- Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris [6]
- Mémorial Charles de Gaulle, Paris [30]
- Thermes, Aix-en-Provence [20]
- L'aéronef, centre d'animation de Roissypôle, Roissy [82]
- Lycée hôtelier [4]
- Stand pour le Grand Palais, Paris [1]
- Usine Kimberly-Clark Industries [68]
- Centre culturel juif européen, Paris [178]
- Hôpital Nord, Pavillon mères/enfants - Urgences générales, Marseille [12]
- Hôtel du département, Marseille [5]
- Immeuble Kantstrasse, Berlin [4]
- Immeuble Le Monde, Paris [3]
- Immeubles, Berlin [95]
- Suresnes [10]
- Immeubles de bureaux pour Électricité de France, Saint-Denis [46]
- Lycée, Toulon [7]
- Immeuble-galerie marchande Mylsbek, Prague [288]
- L'arbre ville [18]
- Centre de création contemporaine, site Francis-Poulenc, Tours [2]
- Centre de création contemporaine, site Francis-Poulenc, Tours [201]
- Les échelles de l'espace [6]
- Mairie, Lillebonne [169]
- Poteau, s.d [4]
- Maison Letaillieur, Paris [117]
- Pont [2]
- Musée du Prado, Madrid [26]
- Dispositif scénique pour Cœur à gaz de Tristan Tzara, UNESCO, Paris [4]
- Le Monolithe fracturé, Pavillon français, Biennale de Venise [35]
- Cimenterie Lafarge [59]
- Esquisse du Cube [17]
Claude Parent
- Immeuble du SEPTEN, Lyon–Villeurbanne, 1982
- Drawing
- Encre et crayon graphite sur calque
- 29.7 x 42 cm
- 997 68 04
Immeuble du SEPTEN, Lyon-Villeurbanne, 1981-1991
Projet réalisé
Following the decentralization of part of its services in the early 1980s, Électricité de France decided to relocate the Service Études et Projets Thermiques Et Nucléaires (research center for thermal and nuclear studies) from La Défense in Paris to Villeurbanne. Claude Parent, who had already worked with this state-owned company on nuclear power plant projects, was selected as the architect. The project did not go through the usual competitive process given the “complexity of the works,” but also and especially because of its strategic aspects. Parent worked with the architects René Gimbert and Jacques Vergely of Villeurbanne and the landscape architect Jérôme Vital-Durand of Lyon. The latter took charge of developing the main hall, which comprises terraces, plantings and circular ponds in an 800-m² area of green space. From the choice of the site all the way to the acceptance and sign off on the building, the architects followed each step of the construction process in close coordination with the client’s project management delegate, M. Maerten, deputy director of the S.E.P.T.E.N. Several projects were developed to meet the E.D.F. engineers’ requirements, most importantly to facilitate communication between the various departments. Behind the architectural part that was finally chosen hides the simplicity of the plan, an idea Claude Parent had been working on since the 1960s. The main building, square in plan, has a vast central courtyard (30 m x 27.5 m) under a glass roof. Inside this system, vertical circulation is via elevators and horizontal circulation, between the various floors, via ramps with a 5% incline. They enable one to move from the ground floor up to the fifth level without encountering a sharp break. The light penetrating from the glass roof is further enhanced by slits in three of the façades. Two other smaller buildings are attached to this cube in reinforced concrete and clad in polished granite.
Audrey Jeanroy