28 november 2024
Le Visionnaire: Espace Francois Dalle
The world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal, has renovated its headquarters in Paris. During this renovation, a cutting-edge glass façade was constructed in the building’s courtyard, featuring a meshed lamellar-type conical tower topped by a spherical dome, enclosing a space called Le Visionnaire - Espace François Dalle. Bellapart participated in optimizing and ensuring the buildability of the geometric design from the early stages, working on detailing, engineering, prototyping, testing, fabrication, and site installation. In this video, Arnau Bover shares his firsthand experience working on this challenging project. The interview was recorded at the Challenging Glass Conference 9 in June 2024 in Delft. The video was produced by the Open GLASSroom project, in collaboration with the NewMedia Centre at TU Delft. To learn more about the project, a link to a case study paper published in the Glass Structures & Engineering journal is provided. The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000089750. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.