Climat Planète Research Center, New Grenoble Building, South East France Architecture Photos
Climat Planète Research Center in Grenoble
7 Nov 2021
Design: Serero Architectes
Location: Grenoble, eastern France

Photos © Didier Boy de la Tour
Climat Planète Research Center
A climate research platform with laboratories, data center and its digital computing virtualization room.
The Climat Planète building is a extension of the CERMO building on the Universitary campus of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) in Saint-Martin d’Hères. We reused the DNA of the existing building: articulation of volumes by vertical circulation, an architecture organized by the structure of the building, a plan of the building in “branches” perpendicular to each other. Our goal is to offer a building that can quickly build and foster a community of researchers around the building’s research infrastructure, its Data Center, and its digital computing virtualization room.
An “exchange hub” between researchers

At the junction between the 2 buildings that form Climat Planète, a fully glazed volume shows trays suspended on 3 levels. They include the hall, the conference room on the ground floor and the meeting rooms on the upper floors. This “HUB” is a space for networking and connection between researchers and the image of building activity towards the outdoor space. On the east and west facades, a stainless steel woven metal mesh protects these glazing over its e...