Toulouse, Aerospace Campus

Aerospace Campus by FOA
A joint venture group formed by Altarea-Cogedim and FOA has been selected by Grand Toulouse to deliver the redevelopment of the former Montaudran Aerodrome in Toulouse, as the future centre to the Aerospace Valley, a project aimed to consolidate the centre of the European Aerospace Industry in Toulouse, including production, research and education...
The Montaudran Aerodrome, bears great historical significance for the French Aerospace Industry as the location of the Aeropostale services famous for counting Antoine de Saint Exupery amongst its pilots- and the location of the Latecoere factory, one of the world pioneers in the aerospace industry.

The project will provide 193,700m2 of offices, research facilities and leisure and retail areas in a 40Ha site at the core of the Aerospace Valley in Toulouse, close to the Rangueil Scientific Campus and the Paul Sabatier University, and will become its future urban centre. The overall costs of the development will amount to approximately 600M Euro, including the development of the infrastructure of the site.

The bidders for the project included some of the largest developers in France, such as Bouygues, ICADE and Kaufman, and some important names in the field of architecture, such as Rogers, Stirk and Harbour, OMA and Xavier de Geyter.

The design team lead by FOA has proposed to retain the trace of the former runway as a historical trace of the origins of the Aerospace Industry in Toulouse. Using the presence of a very high water table in the site, the former runway will be replaced by a water surface to contribute to the microclimate of the complex through adiabatic cooling. The Canal will also function as a collector and reservoir to provide irrigation to the nearly 20Ha of green spaces that the complex will provide and will become the main public space feature of the future Aerospace Campus, and will be complemented by using the volume of above grade parking to form a sculpted socle that will generate a theatrical public space at the centre of the complex. The complex will be autonomous in terms of energy supply through a collaboration with Suez, the French energy company, to install a carbon zero energy system with a combination of solar collection, biofuel and GSHC.

The campus has been designed as a series of energy-efficient buildings with atria, shaded facades and mansard-like green roofs with solar panels. Amongst them, the headquarters for ONERA, the French Aerospace Research Institute have been designed as a 28-story tower that will become a beacon of reference for the whole Aerospace Valley.

Work should start in the 1st half of 2009, for delivery of the 1st phase in the 1st half of 2011.

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[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some question about psychology and craetivity:

(1) Why do we love to day-dream about new aeroplanes in the future?

(2) How will be the motivation for flying in the future different from that at now? (eg. for school project, for shopping, or daily sport...etc)

(3) In you opinion, what will aeroplanes look like in the future?

(4) If flight simulator has program feature to dsign a new future aeroplanes, will it be attractive to players?

THANK YOU for answer!!! :)

[McScanDisk]

vous rêvez en couleurs. (en 3D en l'occurrence)