FLI SACLAY | Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

In France, some twenty kilometers south of Paris, the Plateau de Saclay has been destined since 1945 to provide the Paris region and France with a world-class, cutting-edge science and technology cluster. Today, it ranks among the world's most powerful innovation clusters, alongside Silicon Valley, Boston, Tech City London, Beijing, Bangalore, Skolkovo Innovation City (Russia) and Silicon Wadi (Israel). The FAST-LPTMS-IPA research building designed by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés is one of the latest facilities to emerge from this vast epic of science city construction. Its status goes beyond the phenomena of obsolescence, offering researchers not only a privileged, long-lasting setting, but also a dynamic environment for exchange, thanks in particular to its mysterious, luminous, elevating nave.