Elliptical nest

The façade of a mysterious building in the French municipality of Marly-le-Roi impresses us with its bright green glow. For it isn’t until you learn about the history of the medical therapy centre and its complex aluminium skin that you become fully aware of the potential of the PREFA rhomboid tile as a design element: Adopting the elliptical, multiply curved form, it refers to the city’s colour canon in various shades of green, traditional parks and the centre’s service offering with a scaly reference to the snake of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. But most importantly, the tile illustrates how it was able to follow the ideas that the executing office 2AD Architecture had for this peculiar, nest-like architecture.

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The elliptical medical therapy centre in Marly-le-Roi and the park around it from a bird's eye view from the side.

Portrait of the lead architect Martin Armingeat from the office 2AD Architecture from Vanves.

Normal view of the building, the rhomboid façade is in clear view.

Normal view of the centre, the curved façade is in clear view.

Close-up of the aluminium cladding made of rhomboid tiles in the bespoke colours grey-green, reseda green and mint green from the side.

The building from the side, the asphalt ground before it and the sky in the background.

View of the medical therapy centre that takes up the shades of green in the surrounding park.

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Text: Anneliese Heinisch
Photos: Croce & Wir

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