Centre Pompidou

Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, Paris, France, 1977

Scale: no scale
Materials: acrylic, paint
Type: sketch
Detail: 3/7
Student: Nicolas Alexander Müllejans, HS23

A small acrylic block model representing the primary façade elevation of the Center Pompidou by Piano, Rogers, and Franchini, constructed from stacked and painted acrylic sheets. The front face is painted directly onto the acrylic surface to render the building's exposed structural and service grid in its signature palette — silver/white horizontal floor beams, blue columns and ductwork, yellow and red service elements, and green cross-bracing — capturing the color-coded systems logic of the design. The model operates as a flat graphic-elevation study rather than a volumetric representation, foregrounding the façade's structural and mechanical organization over three-dimensional massing or interior arrangement. No scale is assigned, consistent with its role as a conceptual or presentation sketch of the building's iconic exoskeletal facade.