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ERFAN M KAMIL, ST., MT

UNIVERSITAS
MUHAMMADIYAH
PALEMBANG

White Tree IYAN IRAWAN

(L’Arbre Blanc) 142016020

SOU FUJIMOTO
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION · Development

■ · Competition
La Folie architecturale de Richter
Promeo Patrimoine Gilbert Ganivenq,
Cyrill Meynadier Evolis Promotion
Francis Lamazère, Alain Gillet
Surface

■ · Award · Structural Engineer

First Prize Andre Verdier
■ · Project Name
· Design and Environmental
L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) Engineering
■ · Architects Frank Boutte Consultants
Sou Fujimoto Architects,
· Landscaping
Nicolas Laisné Associés, Bassinet Turquin Paysage
Manal Rachdi Oxo architects
· Lighting Designer
■ · Location
Odile Soudant
Montpellier, France
· Area
10225.0 sqm
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The City of Montpellier has

chosen Sou Fujimoto
Architects, Nicolas Laisné
Associés and Manal Rachdi Oxo
architects’ “White Tree (L’Arbre
Blanc)” as winner of the
"Architectural Folie of the 21st
Century" competition. Inspired
by the city’s tradition of outdoor
living, and the efficient
properties of a tree, the mixed-
use residential tower will feed
off locally available natural
resources as it rises 17-stories
and connects the new and old
districts of Montpellier
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The new multipurpose tower called L’Arbre

Blanc (The White Tree) is designed for
housing, a restaurant, an art gallery, offices,
a bar with a panoramic view and a
common area. From the project’s concept
phase, the architects were heavily inspired
by Montpellier's tradition of outdoor living.
The tower is strategically located between
the city centre and the newly developed
districts of Port Marianne and Odysseum,
midway between the 'old' and the new
Montpellier.
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The building was sited to meld with and defer to its

surrounding environment, yet gives it just the right
added flair. Arching like a pair of wings hugging the
contours of the Lez River down to Pompignane
Avenue, Arbre Blanc was intentioned as a natural
form that was carved out or sculpted over time by
water or wind. It perfectly mimics a tree reshaping
itself to grow into its environment yet simultaneously
enhancing it by offering much-needed shade.

Despite the name “white tree,” this is by no means an

ivory tower. A beat integral to the urban song, the
building is destined as a public high-rise built for every
soul in Montpellier. The edifice will extend its limbs to all
the city's residents and visitors, from the ground floor
restaurant and art gallery to the penthouse bar
serving as vista point. This attainable passage will
make the tower that much more attractive as a
source of pride for Montpellians and a point of interest
for tourists.
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Of all people, the building is unavoidable for

its inhabitants, so a common space has been
added on to the public bar where all the co-
owners from any floor can have a private taste
of the scenic view. Spaces in the flats know
no difference between inside and outside –
you are free to move through them
instinctively. The balconies are proportioned
to make you gravitate toward the outdoors,
like leaves fanning out to soak up the warm
nourishing sunlight
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Rather than an interesting flat, future

residents will find a versatile space. Each
resident will select a setting (west-facing
three-bedroom, southeast two-bedroom, etc.)
and a preferred floor plan from a list of
possible layouts.
The architects sought to encourage free-
choice architecture, which they see as
underpinning tomorrow's housing trend where
everyone starts with a “housing stock” when
they buy their flat and are not confined to
manufactured articles, regimented layouts,
turnkey spaces. Instead they are given
possibilities, modular interior spaces they can
choose from a catalogue of optional features
and floor plans.
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Just like a tree, the tower will feed off its locally available
natural resources to drastically reduce the energy it
needs to expend. It will devise passive strategies to
induce comfort and use as well as control environmental
impacts and scale back emissions. An unconventional
yet dialectical process will passively cool units with solar
fireplaces.
Arbre Blanc is the tallest “Folie” in Montpellier's
architectural arsenal and is looking become the city's
focal point, a landmark that serves as a lighthouse or
guiding star at night amid the regional urban skyline.

An exclusive outlook on the surrounding area, a gift to all the city's

residents and visitors. A starting point from where the vista branches
out and your eyes can take it all in: the land's silhouettes, the open
water, the longing it creates for far-off lands and Montpellier's rich
historical heritage. Erected in a pivotal location for the city, at its
core Arbre Blanc is the very symbol of the Mediterranean, the 'mid-
land sea' that has forever been a crossroads, a meeting point
between Europe, Africa and Asia.
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